Potential hack?

[stefanmaine]

Over the past few days, the attached has appeared a couple of times on a blank Safari page with no source URL displayed.

I assume it is phony (or worse) so I have not touched it.

I got the attached image by Command-Shift-4.

Then I closed (Quit) Safari and cleared History.

Thank you for any suggestions!

 

[MacInWin]

That is a report from Safari that a password you have used for the specified account has appeared in some leak at some time. If you have not changed the password in a while, it COULD be compromised. All you need to do is to go to the specified account and change the password. It's not a hack, I get it all the time for old passwords that have been leaked by various site failures. In my case, the message appears as I am going to the site whose password is compromised. I suspect that is when it happens for you, rather than randomly.

 

[IWT]

I agree with Jake. I've had this quite a few times over the last year or two. As Jake said, the message was simply reminding me that my Password of "X" had been leaked/exposed during an attack/breach on another site, most likely one you had never even known existed.

So do as Jake advised. For the moment, you are not at immediate risk, but could be in the future.

Ian

 

[stefanmaine]

That is a report from Safari that a password you have used for the specified account has appeared in some leak at some time. If you have not changed the password in a while, it COULD be compromised. All you need to do is to go to the specified account and change the password. It's not a hack, I get it all the time for old passwords that have been leaked by various site failures. In my case, the message appears as I am going to the site whose password is compromised. I suspect that is when it happens for you, rather than randomly.

"All you need to do is ..."
Done.
Thank you both for being here!
I mean that.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

Over the past few days, the attached has appeared a couple of times on a blank Safari page ...

What to Do If You Get a Safari Compromised Password Alert in macOS
https://www.makeuseof.com/safari-macos-compromised-password-alert-what-to-do/