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Firefox Monitor found my email address in a breach of a website I've never heard of or visited

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derek.peters
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Monitor sent me information that my email address was compromised in a breach of appen.com. I've never heard of them, never googled them, never looked at their site, certainly never registered there. How did my data get into their systems?

Monitor sent me information that my email address was compromised in a breach of appen.com. I've never heard of them, never googled them, never looked at their site, certainly never registered there. How did my data get into their systems?

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James
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https://monitor.firefox.com/breaches https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-monitor https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-monitor-faq

derek.peters
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Couldn't find an answer to my question anywhere in these links

James
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Gravatar (https://www.gravatar.com/) is a website that other websites can use to store user profile data like that can be used/shared by multiple websites (i.e. one login for multiple websites).