In a former Windows life, I had a different email address.
There's a guy in Surfers' Paradise, Australia, who has come up with a program which detects whether one's data has been breached. Scammers usually begin with the email address, and build a profile from there.
When I put in my former email address, his software informed me I had had 32 data breaches.
With my current email, and MX Linux, my data breach count is zero.