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Kahuna32162 08-06-2014 06:27 AM

Might be time to change all your passwords again.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/te...ials.html?_r=0

According to the New York Times, a Russian gang has stolen as many as 1.2 Billion username and password combinations and up to 500 Million email addresses from Internet databases.

:Screen_of_Death:

DeanFL 08-06-2014 07:03 AM

:sing: nothing is safe anymore. Last month I changed all my passwords - thought I'd be wicked smart to make them all in Russian:

Путин ис греат леадер (Putin is great leader) :girlneener:

Now, with this news - might be good idea to change again...
sure won't be in Chinese either.

MarkinMd 08-06-2014 08:26 AM

Now someone from NSA will be visiting you,lol.

MarkinMd 08-06-2014 11:31 AM

Now you've done it, not only are you going to have NSA visiting you but also the IRS,lol.

senior citizen 08-06-2014 12:26 PM

If you really want to get their goat
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DeanFL (Post 919437)
:sing: nothing is safe anymore. Last month I changed all my passwords - thought I'd be wicked smart to make them all in Russian:

Путин ис греат леадер (Putin is great leader) :girlneener:

Now, with this news - might be good idea to change again...
sure won't be in Chinese either.




If you really want to get their goat.........change to Ukrainian:

Here is Ukrainian language......with English translation

Я візьму велику цукерку, а ти - маленьку.

I'll get the big candy and you'll get the small one


"Soundex" ....phonetically....
I would like a cup of tea, please.

Ya khochu chashku chayu, proshu.

Where is the bathroom?

De laznychka?


This is my luggage

Tse mij bagazh.

I would like to buy the white tennis shoes.

Ya khochu kupyty bili snikeri.

r_pakker 08-21-2014 01:44 AM

I am just a visitor from abroad .. I am not allowed to post links here. So i have to describe. I have added to my browser an addin that warns me if a site is not safe. (this talkofthevillages has mended the vulnerability and is safe.)

In general just change the passwords at sites where you have to login with your e-mail-address as username.

Other could be compromised too; you should check wether your username-password combination was hacked,

there are some sites that have that information for you that.

Barefoot 08-21-2014 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kahuna32162 (Post 919424)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/te...ials.html?_r=0
According to the New York Times, a Russian gang has stolen as many as 1.2 Billion username and password combinations and up to 500 Million email addresses from Internet databases.

Thanks for the link. It's scary stuff. :eek:
When my Pay Pal account was hacked, their Security Department told me that no internet site was truly safe.
They told me that I must all change my passwords monthly, USING A DIFFERENT PASSWORD FOR EVERY ACCOUNT.
Obviously changing and keeping track of passwords has turned into a major organizational nightmare, but a necessary one!

Susan G 08-21-2014 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kahuna32162 (Post 919424)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/te...ials.html?_r=0

According to the New York Times, a Russian gang has stolen as many as 1.2 Billion username and password combinations and up to 500 Million email addresses from Internet databases.

:Screen_of_Death:

I was one of the unlucky ones that has their email hijacked. Every time I turned on my laptop to pull mail THOUSANDS of attempted emails that were rejected would flood my inbox and junk mail.
I had to have it blocked at the server back in Louisiana till we could figure it out - 64,000 msgs in inbox and another 50,000+ in junk folder. Finally working again and password is long and complicated, but apparently this is what we must do these days.


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