Do you use a date in your email address, login name or password ?
As a matter of privacy, please change your user ids to not have your birth dates, other dates of relevance, in there. You will be surprised how many times a username / password is leaked. Preferably, use a password manager ( like the one in your browser, or OS, or a thirdparty one, like Bitwarden / 1Password / LastPass ).
If you already have accounts what have the above combination, and the site allows you to change it, please act on priority.
If the site does not support renaming, and the accounts are “not important” from a “losing data” perspective, please delete them and create new ones with random names / passwords generated by the password manager.
For email, you should create a new one without those numbers, and have the emails “forward” to the new account. And, in the future, use the new email address.
No matter your age, you still have a long life of sharing contact details with people, so it will be worth upgrading now.
#privacy #dataleak
