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Find out If Your Email Accounts have been Secretly Compromised in Latest Hacker Attacks


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In a nutshell

▶ More than 154 million users accounts of Yahoo, Adobe, Sony, Vodafone and many other prominent companies were compromised recently.

▶ If you had an account with any of these sites, you may probably want to check out if your email id was one among those that were compromised.

▶ Hackers normally use such accounts and their details for many unlawful purposes.

▶ So, to find out if your email id was secretly compromised, continue reading...

Do you watch YouTube videos?

Well, then you must be having Adobe Flash installed on your PC/tablet/Smartphone or whatever device you use to watch videos.

No, nothing wrong with that! You can watch as many videos as you want. But, did you know that more than 150 million Adobe accounts were hacked recently in the month of October. And, if you had an account with Adobe which you used to download Flash, then, your email address could be among those that were pwned during the recent hacker breach.

Pwned – in hacker terminology means owning i.e. your information such as name, username, email address, passwords, credit card and other details are now owned by hackers and they can use these details for any unlawful purposes.

Not just Adobe, millions of email accounts from Yahoo, Sony, Vodafone and others were hacked recently. Even as companies scramble to increase their security protocols, they still continued to be hacked.

The Real Problem..

Some of you might not care if your Adobe or Sony account got hacked unless and until you had some credit card or bank-related information with them. I know, you would simply go ahead and reset your password and forget it.

But, the real problem is that most users use the same email and password combination across different accounts for different websites. If you followed the same, then a hacker getting access to your Adobe or Sony account could also get access to your Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and many other key accounts. Then, the consequences could be really devastating!

Not just this, most would be not even aware that their information was compromised.

If your email address is safe and the details have not been leaked, it says – “Good news – no pwnage found.
In case if your email id has been compromised, you’ll get a warning in red. It indicates which account’s email id was pwned, say it was of Adobe, Sony, Yahoo or other.
What if my Email ID is Compromised?

The very first thing to do is to check if you have used the same email id on other accounts too?

Next, change the password and other information immediately.

As a best practice, please use a different email and password combination for different websites. Also, it is always better to create and use a new email id for all non-important accounts on the web.

If you feel it’s difficult to remember and keep up with different emails and their passwords, you can use online password managers like LastPass, KeePass etc.

Source: http://www.technojourney.com/tips/email-accounts-compromised-hacker-attacks/

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I'm not friend to write down my personal mail in any website like this. If I were you I'd change the password directly.

Thanks for the info.

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If you don't mind, can you Please Share with us the Real Source of this News Story that you Posted - Aside from haveibeenpwned.com ?? Cheers

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This can't be right I went to that site to check my email address. it says the website that my email address is compromised with is Adobe,problem with that is have never registered with them.

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This can't be right I went to that site to check my email address. it says the website that my email address is compromised with is Adobe,problem with that is have never registered with them.

It doesn't say anything good about the website :unsure: .

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This is called PHISHING

Wow put my email on a webpage and click? NO THANKS! When i heard the news earlier this year about Adobe being hacked, I immediately went to Adobe and changed my password, same with all my email accounts.

I dont need a webpage to tell me if i been hacked yet or not, just using my brain is good enough THANKS.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/phishing.html

Phishing
(fish´ing) (n.) The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.
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Yes, there are many such sites that have popped up recently, and most are probably just easy ways for spammers to extract active email addresses from the clueless. Apply some common sense and don't enter your address or password at any other site except the original one when you go to change it.

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https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is likely not a phishing site. The site is a project run by Tory Hunt (http://au.linkedin.com/in/troyhunt) who would have very little to gain from "phishing" for emails you submit to be checked on the site. As far as some mentioning that the results can't be right as they never signed up for Adobe, Stratfor, etc... I'm sure the Adobe database goes /way/ back and you might not have remembered signing up for it or someone else may have used your email address (esp. if it is common).

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