Accounts and Paswords

[Tom Wellige 45]

Hi all,

 

there have been massive dumps of hacked data lately. These dumps contain billions of email addresses and passwords of hacked accounts from the last years.

 

Here you can find details on this:

 

• EN: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/collection-1-and-2-5-are-the-latest-massive-password-dumps/
• DE: https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Neue-Passwort-Leaks-Insgesamt-2-2-Milliarden-Accounts-betroffen-4287538.html

 

If you want to know if your email is included in those dumps you can use the following page. It searches a given email address in all dumps and sends a detailed report to that email address, containing all available information.

 

• https://sec.hpi.de/ilc/search

 

The lesson to learn from all this is to use different secure passwords in all your online accounts as also 2 factor authentication where ever possible.

 

Luckily Swyx Forum provides such 2 factor authentication. More about that can be found here:

 

 

Stay safe!