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Originally Posted by OtinG
I haven’t had any accounts compromised via spam either. But I have had breaches occur to accounts outside my control and received legitimate notification from them, including the US Gov’t Office of Personnel Management, and of course T-Mobile at least twice. So double checking to verify spam is really spam is a good idea. Commonly occurring spam is not an issue, but unknown spam should be double checked, and of course passwords changed to be on the safe side. And of course if the spam is a known spam scheme or claiming to be from a company you have never had an account with, it safe to ignore those, and block them.
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Spam and breaches are two different things. Real hackers and breachers don't send you spam messages. Spammers do and of course if one voluntarily gives them passwords and other data, then they can take your account over. But spammers don't know your data unless you give it to them.