I also recieve that kind of email last month but after reading the email i immediately deleted it. I dont have time talking to a hacker and im not interested even hes black mailing me.

Glad I didn't receive such email. But even if I did, I won't make much a big deal out of it. If it's in my spam folder, then maybe it's nothing important that's why it was there. I also get text messages that I have to know something important so I should call them back or I won a huge amount of money. After reading it, all I can say is, "Whatever".

But of course, let's always be careful regarding this kind of matter. Our security and safety should be our priority. Let's not allow this kind of email bother us or make us a victim.

This is like the best tip, probably your password is in one of a database leak including your email address. No worries at all, it are maleficent users that are targetting people who's credentials are in those leaks/dumps.

So yes there is a high probability that your password has been leaked. Always a smart move to change your password on sites where you've used that specific password.

More likely, a credential leak/hack from a website (or a compilation of them). These BDs have been on the market for some time, and this sort of email has a bunch of variations that have been used for a couple of years now.

The fact that, in my case, they displayed an email/password I haven’t used for years (although I still received emails on it, until I closed it down recently), goes to show that the list they compile is not sophisticated, nor necessarily up-to-date, and probably cheapish to acquire in bulk, and blindly target many of them with this kind of email. Some will bring people into a state of panic if the password is recent or current on some site, and that’s when one may make mistakes.

Most of us have encountered this at least once. Mainly from an old site that got compromised or had its data sold to third-parties.

As long as you're no longer using the old password elsewhere, there's little to be concerned about.

You have checked an old spam email yet nothing has happened even after the days the email has been sent which only means the threat isn't real and the scammer either has been lucky guessing your password or has posted a common password a lot of people are using. These typea of blackmail are not real and they are just only using common facts that exists on a lot of people that's why some of them are thinking it os true. Don't be worried about this email as the threat isn't real and they are just guessing it. I won't even both reading those kinds of email that have been sent into spam.

Yeap, True that haveibeenpwned using cloudfare and is admitted by troy hunt himself. But doesnt mean that site can't be trust. I use that site coz that site highly recommended when you want to know if your email breached and also, that site has been running for a years without too many negative comments.

The site service can be trust but what I mean is that if they have technical difficulty through hacker attack the cloudflare will make easy for the hacker to get the information of their user thats why I mean when I said it shouldnt be trusted.