# Do you ignore or take action from dark web alerts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Technology\ **Created:** [March 25, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/do-you-ignore-or-take-action-from-dark-web-alerts/4771 "2024-03-25T19:01:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robertpri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@robertpri](https://community.clark.com/u/robertpri)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/do-you-ignore-or-take-action-from-dark-web-alerts/4771/1 "2024-03-25T19:01:43Z")
I have several monitoring ‘alerts’ for my user name. I get these all the time! It’s only the email user name but not the p/w. Still, they suggest changing p/w. If I did that, I would have changed it probably a hundred times. I just ignore them now. Comments? ---
**Author:** ![arjaybe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@arjaybe](https://community.clark.com/u/arjaybe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/do-you-ignore-or-take-action-from-dark-web-alerts/4771/2 "2024-03-27T17:01:55Z")
Once you’ve been in a breach the same information tends to pop up again and again in lists (pastes). If there is a specific site listed that was breached, you can look at the breach date and change if it it’s newer than the last time you changed. [https://haveibeenpwned.com/](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) has most breaches with details. If you use a different strong password on every site and two-factor authentication where available, you are probably safe from the information in pastes since it tends to be pretty old (at least for me). ---
**Author:** ![butler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@butler](https://community.clark.com/u/butler)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/do-you-ignore-or-take-action-from-dark-web-alerts/4771/3 "2024-03-27T17:23:46Z")
I ignore them…my credit has been frozen for 10 years…