The term "pwned" originated in video game culture and is a leetspeak derivation of the word "owned," due to the proximity of the "o" and "p" keys. It is typically used to imply that someone has been controlled or compromised, for example, "I was pwned in the Adobe data breach". The term has always loosely meant that someone has been dominated by someone else, first in online video games and later on the internet by hackers. Nowadays, regular internet users are seldom pwned in the traditional sense of the word. The focus of hackers has shifted to companies storing thousands and sometimes even millions of login credentials. When a company gets pwned, its users are automatically pwned as well. Being pwned means that someone has taken control of your email address, or a user profile that has been created with it. It is important to change your password if your account has been pwned, and if you have reused your password on other accounts, you should change passwords for those accounts as well.