Granted it’s not much money. Just to see if the account that’s been outbidding everyone will outbid me

  • DisabledAceSocialist
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    1 year ago

    Emails/users plus passwords can be used for bruteforcing other accounts (usernames and passwords are often reused), or they could hijack your account on chapo.chat (which is the current backup domain for hexbear).

    would I have to try to login again for this to happen, or could it happen anyway?

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You would have to attempt to log in on a phony website. This domain auction does not give the new owner any access to the data stored on the current lemmy instance hosted underneath it.

      It’s like selling your house. The new owner may get your address, but they don’t get ownership of your furniture.