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560 million passwords leaked
05-17-2017, 12:03 PM
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560 million passwords leaked
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05-17-2017, 12:19 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Originally Posted by imoldernu
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Which is why I don't have just one password or even 2 or 3.
I tailor my password to each website. I do hate ones that don't allow special characters, because I use them in passwords.
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05-17-2017, 12:36 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: San Diego
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FWIW - this is a compilation of previous breaches - not new breaches. I checked my email address(es) and found that I was listed because of a linkedin breach from several years... I've changed passwords several times since that breach.
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05-17-2017, 01:18 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Brewster
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I'm the neighborhood computer guy. There are lots of very weak passwords out there, usually held by the people who never enable two-factor authentication because it's too complicated, and don't update their system software for fear it will break something. These are the anti-vaxxers of the digital world.
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05-17-2017, 01:35 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Ex-Cali
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This website, from the article, is sort of interesting though. To see if you have been in one of the breaches.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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05-17-2017, 01:53 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightcap
I'm the neighborhood computer guy. There are lots of very weak passwords out there, usually held by the people who never enable two-factor authentication because it's too complicated, and don't update their system software for fear it will break something. These are the anti-vaxxers of the digital world.
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You mean c7tw00d isn't clever enough? Darn.
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05-17-2017, 03:48 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by CaliKid
This website, from the article, is sort of interesting though. To see if you have been in one of the breaches.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/ |
My old email that at a time I used as primary shows breached.
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05-17-2017, 03:57 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2014
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Now would be a good time to make any weak passwords stronger. 
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05-17-2017, 04:14 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Spending the Kids Inheritance and living in Chicago
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Originally Posted by JoeWras
You mean c7tw00d isn't clever enough? Darn.
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Stop showing my password around, or I'm going to have to change it... !! 
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05-17-2017, 04:18 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Weatherford Texas
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My personal emails were not hacked but my w*rk email was. This isn't a total shock since Megacorp set up all employees with free personal identity theft protection
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05-17-2017, 04:33 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Spending the Kids Inheritance and living in Chicago
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A few of my emails at various websites were hacked. Since every site gets its own password and many get their own email address, it's not a worry unless address is released as well.
One of my hacked emails is currently being sent lots of scammer emails about weight loss
Thanks......Zappos 
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05-17-2017, 07:19 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaliKid
This website, from the article, is sort of interesting though. To see if you have been in one of the breaches.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/ |
It's legit...I know people
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05-17-2017, 07:43 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Old news
AKA clickbait
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05-17-2017, 08:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I've got 560 million problems, and a password ain't one of 'em.
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05-17-2017, 08:25 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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I use lastpass and it generates my passwords for most of the sites I really want to keep private, I also have two person on all the financial sites, or any site that has my credit card. i.e. Amazon. I figure if a password like this: pOWiy@8oUuflW4R0 is hacked, well it's just not my day.
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