The right response isnโ€™t panicking about a hacked account, itโ€™s treating unexpected chess.com emails with more suspicion than usual and checking whether that same email address has turned up anywhere else, since reused credentials remain the far more dangerous exposure than anything sitting in this particular file.

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/67579447

The right response isnโ€™t panicking about a hacked account, itโ€™s treating unexpected chess.com emails with more suspicion than usual and checking whether that same email address has turned up anywhere else, since reused credentials remain the far more dangerous exposure than anything sitting in this particular file.