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Old 2013-02-03, 09:58   Link #26171
demonix
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Originally Posted by Dextro View Post
Standard M.O. for dealing with possible hacked websites applies: change your password on the service and in every other service where the same username (and/or email)/password combination is used.
The problem here is that both passwords were different, but the password for my g-mail account would have been easy to get with a dictionary to hand.

I've now started dumping numerical sequences at the end of the passwords used for my e-mail accounts, but at least google actually stopped whoever it was from accessing my g-mail account unlike yahoo who allowed someone from Egypt to run amok in my backup yahoo mail account sending spam to anyone they wanted and only left me with a small notification that I might have missed.
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