Have I been hacked

Concerneduser101 wrote:

Thankyou for your response, however they have my actual password which they have sent me. Can they access my accounts? I changed some account passwords today

Understood. This is why this type of scam is scary. The scammers have purchased user names and passwords from hackers that over the years have hacked sites such as Yahoo, Hotmail, LinkedIn, etc. They are no trying to extort money from users by pretending to have more information on you by showing you a password that you had used. That is all the information they have (a user name and a password). That’s it.

As TheLittles says above, change passwords for those site(s) that may have used the password quoted by the scammers, assuming you hadn’t done that years ago when notified by Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.

Concerneduser101 Said:

"Have I been hacked: [...] they have my actual password which they have sent me. Can they access my accounts? I changed some account passwords today"

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Securing your Data - ASAP:

With Privacy & Security being of High-Concern here, consider performing the following for Apple and all other accounts, that have such options:

• Modify: your login credentials (opening a new eMail Account and usinge a never-before-used Password)
• Associate: a different method of payment to your account
• Enable: Two-factor authentication for Apple ID

There are thousands of such emails sent daily. They all have one thing in common, they are all scams. Simply delete the email and move on with your day.