Posted on 05/06/2016 5:10:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The hack affected providers such as Google, Yahoo, Hotmail and Microsoft
Cybersecurity professionals are warning anyone with a personal email account to change their passwords after stolen user names and passwords were being offered up for sale on the Internet, NBC News reported.
Some 272.3 million accounts were stolen - and involve some of the biggest email providers, including Google, Yahoo, Hotmail and Microsoft, according to Alex Holden of Hold Security.
"We know he's a young man in central Russia who collected this information from multiple sources," Holden told NBC News. "We don't know the way he did it or the reason why he did it."
The user names and passwords were all being sold on the so-called “dark web,” where hackers hock their goods. Hackers use the stolen information to lure users into giving away more information, including credit card numbers and bank account access.
Experts say people should change their passwords regularly. Use abstract combinations of letters, numbers and characters that a criminal's computer program couldn't easily guess.
Do these Idiots with FREE Email accounts actually think their Email is secure?
I’m unsure what this is all about.
Were the accounts stolen from an source, such as public wifi or something?
This seems concerning, but I’m not yet sure whether this is a real issue, or not?
My sister’s yahoo account has been hacked 3 times, til I told her to change the darn password hint, then it didnt happen again. No email account is safe, maybe I should get whatever server Hillary used LOL
Let’s be honest.
If you’re on FR, you’re almost guaranteed to be subject to serious FedGov scrutiny.
So the “what me worry?” applies here.
Something weird came up on my computer last week. I immediately changed a lot of passwords.
I’ll need to change my password from 123456 to 654321
My password is not HillarySucks
Have one for all my blogging and extra special ones for anything of value.
“No email account is safe, maybe I should get whatever server Hillary used LOL”
Some companies I’ve consulted for in the past have used password generators that would change your password constantly. You had to have a digital device that provided the password to you in order to sign in to their site. You would only have 1-2 minutes to use the password before a new one was randomly generated. Seemed to be safe to me, but I’m not an IT person. Are these truly safe?
Is it HillarySucks123?
You can buy your ex-wife’s Yahoo password from Brazil for $5.00USD, could work out for you in Divorce Court.
All email is Hackable, of course, It’s just the free ones are easy, or bought CHEAP.
That thought is not lost on me alone.
Don’t care. All I use my Gmail or Yahoo accounts for is testing software stuff or hassling snowflakes on various sites around the globe.
Meh.
I use ‘password’ for all my accounts. It’s SO obvious, no one will ever guess!
Well, POOP!
I have already used:
Password
123456
What choices are left???
What would Bernie suggest?
This is called 2-factor authentication, and it is MUCH more secure than a single password of any length or complexity.
You can enable it on Gmail, Yahoo, and iCloud. Each uses a slightly different method to generate and convey the second password.
Password
123456
What choices are left???
012345 or 1password
RSA - the company - has these tokens.
They were hacked a couple of years ago, though they seem to have recovered.
...What would Bernie suggest?...
redistribution4u
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