[Noisebridge-discuss] email password cracked - what to do?

[Lee Sonko]

>Hacked accounts

That is a dread situation. Sorry.

Some advice on new passwords:
http://lee.org/blog/2010/01/01/passwords-that-are-easy-to-remember-and-hard-to-guess/
http://xkcd.com/936/
If your current passwords are easy to guess across the board, change them
ALL. Yes, this is a huge hassle. Next time make better passwords.


Every site is going to require a different response:
- If they hacked your bank website, call the bank and tell them the time
period you were exposed. They'll look over your records to see what happened
on the site
- If they hacked your http://imgur.com/ site, see if they posted any
embarrasing things in your name
- If they hacked your Facebook account, look at the activity "you" had
during the exposed period. Did "you" Friend anyone? Post anything? Change
your permissions or allow any new applications???
- If they hacked your Friendster account, WTF?
- etc...

Good luck.





On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi there!
> Several email accounts (yahoo) of my friends were compromised in the last
> few weeks probably due to the weak access passwords. I wonder if it is
> enough to log in and set a new stronger password and make sure that the
> internal info for access to different blogs, bank accounts etc which could
> be among the emails is secured = passwords changed etc.
>
> Is this the right way to go?
>
> Is there something else to do?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Frantisek
>
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