lavery549@yahoo Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 I used to have an Hotmail email address . I haven't used it for years ,because it was being compromised by I think hackers . I am now on a different address , & have got more security on that . I have Macafee , which recently warned me ,my previous address was found on the dark web . I wasn't shocked to be fair , but glad I can no longer access that account . Any of you had problems ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 Such as? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheffieldForum Posted Monday at 10:09 Share Posted Monday at 10:09 There's the excellent 'Have I Been Pwned' site, which let you know if your email address has been included in known leaks: https://haveibeenpwned.com It is always worth checking there to see if your info has leaked and for advice on what to do. Remember though, always try to use unique, strong passwords for everything you log in to - if one site gets hacked/leaked and you use the same passwords elsewhere there's a good chance someone will try to access your other sites. A password manager is good for this. Sheffield Forum | The Sheffield Guide | The Sheffield Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted Monday at 19:09 Share Posted Monday at 19:09 Depends how careful you are, I suppose - I've had a computer at home for 30 years, and apart from someone somehow finding my password on here, and my email address, but not the associated password on a now defunct online shop - their fault, I'm not aware of any loss of my data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheffieldForum Posted Tuesday at 11:44 Share Posted Tuesday at 11:44 16 hours ago, RollingJ said: Depends how careful you are, I suppose - I've had a computer at home for 30 years, and apart from someone somehow finding my password on here, and my email address, but not the associated password on a now defunct online shop - their fault, I'm not aware of any loss of my data. Someone found your password on here? When? How (do you know?)? Sheffield Forum | The Sheffield Guide | The Sheffield Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted Tuesday at 11:52 Share Posted Tuesday at 11:52 2 minutes ago, SheffieldForum said: Someone found your password on here? When? How (do you know?)? Way before you took over - I only noticed it because they used it as my 'name' in the message, and to be honest I did nothing about it, all my passwords are site-unique and a small forum like this is nothing to worry about - it contains nothing of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheffieldForum Posted Tuesday at 12:01 Share Posted Tuesday at 12:01 5 minutes ago, RollingJ said: Way before you took over - I only noticed it because they used it as my 'name' in the message, and to be honest I did nothing about it, all my passwords are site-unique and a small forum like this is nothing to worry about - it contains nothing of interest. That's very odd! If you haven't already, I'd change the password to something secure just in case. All information like that is securely held in a hashed format - even I can't access people's passwords, etc. There are some extra security measures coming in the next big site update (such as requiring email address login rather than username) but it is always good to do what you can to keep things secure just in case. Sheffield Forum | The Sheffield Guide | The Sheffield Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted Tuesday at 12:23 Share Posted Tuesday at 12:23 7 minutes ago, SheffieldForum said: That's very odd! If you haven't already, I'd change the password to something secure just in case. All information like that is securely held in a hashed format - even I can't access people's passwords, etc. There are some extra security measures coming in the next big site update (such as requiring email address login rather than username) but it is always good to do what you can to keep things secure just in case. It was years ago - literally, and I did alter it - later, sorry about saying I didn't earlier. It got changed when I did a check on all my passwords after a couple more incidents. New ones are always now secure browser-generated ones, but as nothing happened with regard to the SF 'leak' , other than a few more obvious spam emails which ceased after a couple of weeks, I just added a character to the original and re-ordered the sequence. Not had any trouble - from any site for a long time. BTW, I know about password security - when I was working, our IT department insisted we changed our passwords for our intranet every 10 days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted Thursday at 12:32 Share Posted Thursday at 12:32 If you use Chrome, they have a password checker tool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted Thursday at 12:32 Share Posted Thursday at 12:32 (edited) And if you struggle to think of passwords: https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net/index.html Edited Thursday at 12:32 by alchresearch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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