Having to change over 200 passwords...

[Former Member]

So, I do use the same password for everything. Lol. Yeah, stupid move. I signed up to thah have I been pwnd site to add my email into the list to check and see if it has been. Well, a few sites I forgot about must've been hacked and emails/passwords must've been leaked out. Chrome now pops up when logging into here using said password, to change it because the password was leaked in a recent attack as the have I been pwnd email sent. They never told me what site was hacked into. But, that my email and password may have been compromised.


Got an email from Wish stating my password was changed, and my mailing address was changed.

Shipping details was from someone in Russia after I got my account back. Thankfully I never put my bank card in. So it never had any money saved onto it.

Now I have to go through every single website I even went to in 20 years....

Have you ever had this happen to you? Was it easy to remedy?

[elli]

When I was younger, I had a selection of four passwords that I chose from, ranging from least secure to most secure, and would apply them where appropriate. Some time later, my least-secure password was leaked in a hack. I was eventually led to Have I been Pwned, which tracks hacks like that. Searched by my email and password and saw a few other sites that had been compromised, too.

The solution is to just take the time and reset your passwords. Ideally, use a password manager. They make it easy to generate random, secure passwords that you can store. All my passwords now are literally 20+ characters of random letters, numbers, and symbols. There will be no dictionary attacks on my accounts lol.

[daniel]

1password, my dude. 1password.com/

Try the free trial. It's worth every penny. My only regret is that I waited so long to try it.

[Former Member]

Jan 16, 2020 15:24:20 GMT -8 elli said:

When I was younger, I had a selection of four passwords that I chose from, ranging from least secure to most secure, and would apply them where appropriate. Some time later, my least-secure password was leaked in a hack. I was eventually led to Have I been Pwned, which tracks hacks like that. Searched by my email and password and saw a few other sites that had been compromised, too.

The solution is to just take the time and reset your passwords. Ideally, use a password manager. They make it easy to generate random, secure passwords that you can store. All my passwords now are literally 20+ characters of random letters, numbers, and symbols. There will be no dictionary attacks on my accounts lol.

Yep, that's exactly where I found out a lot of my passwords have been leaked. Which is weird, because half the sites on there, I don't ever remember joining. So it's kinda weird. Unless the passwords were stored on a different server than the site. Which can be catastrophic as seen here. lol. 

Edit: looked up all my passwords that I use now, and NONE of them were ever seen. So that's good. It was just an old school password. (as mentioned below)

Jan 16, 2020 15:26:15 GMT -8 daniel said:

1password, my dude. 1password.com/

Try the free trial. It's worth every penny. My only regret is that I waited so long to try it.

Yeah, I used to have something like that, they went from free to paid, and I just cant be bothered to pay for a service to do that. 

Side note: It was only 30 not over 200. 200 was because that's how much I've saved over the past 10 years or so. Other sites were either offline, or moved to a domain ad sale thing. So I just deleted those out. 

Apparently Zynga was the issue and it involved a password that school had given me to use to login into all their stuff for computer classes back in 2006. So I just used that password for everything over the years. I also used at one point 6 of the same letter from 2001-2006. LOL. Thankfully I stopped using that and nothing uses that anymore.