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I assume you know this, but just in case:

Note that they may have gotten the password from a hacked website--not from your webcam/microphone.

Indeed I know it and it's how I knew for some time that the password in question had been leaked.

I knew all of that too, but it didn't prevent a very unpleasant visceral response in the pit of my stomach when I saw that email come in with the old compromised password on the subject line. The content of the email made me laugh, though.

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