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New to me anyway. Receive an email with one of my fairly complex passwords in the subject line. But it was one digit off.
Same blah blah send me bitcoin or I’ll ruin your life. Not concerned about that part. But if they brute forced the password, why wouldn’t they have all of it? How would you get 12 of 13 characters only? Email said they used a keystroke logger, but that doesn’t make sense either.
They do have it all, just worried another scammer will hack them and have your correct password.:wink:
Doubt they hacked you, they probably hacked a site where you use that password and got a huge data dump. Now they're milking it. Change your password everywhere you use the hacked one and you should be good to go.
I received the same scam (a bunch of times) and it was an old password I don't use anymore, so they must have hacked a site that I haven't used for a long time.
Yup changing everything which is a chore but I’ll do it anyway. The site that it applied to was LinkedIn
^ Whoa, have they warned users that there were hacked?
Or maybe you received a phishing email that appeared to be from LinkedIn and you clicked through, and the hackers grabbed your password and then redirected you to the real site and logged you in, so you never noticed.
But then it seems the password would match and not be a digit off?
Again I’m not going to lose any sleep, just curious about the logistics of it.
Same thing landed in my spam folder on Sunday morning.
Since I'm old school and keep an offline password list (on multiple flash drives), I checked and found the only place I used that password was on an Australian guitar pickup manufacturer's site.
So, my conclusion was that they hacked that site and were trying to get more mileage out of it.
Inconvenient as it was (and no doubt unnecessary), I changed all of my critical passwords, so in this sense, they did me a service as I've been putting this off for far too long.
... Thom
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Was it "Passwood"?
Cuntbuckas? Whoop Whoops? Dingos?Quote:
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They got one of the exclamations in the wrong spot.
The good password managers track breaches, and will encourage or force you to update. Use a password manager.
Linkedin was hacked in 2012. 170 million passwords.Quote:
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How did they know my password was 'Password1' ?
Interesting article on how Europop is handling ransomware.
They Stole Your Files, You Don’t Have to Pay the Ransom https://nyti.ms/2H3Wxgo
... Thom
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