Lesson Learned after losing 2000$ in a day

12 years ago

Originally Posted by quyasspk

Hi WF Members
I learned the lesson after losing 2000$ in a day due to only one reason.All of you should be careful about it.My mistake is that I have used same password in almost for all accounts.Actually my Yahoo mail hacked and after all i lost almost one Paypal and one of my hosting panel, both have same password as my yahoomail.
Please keep different passwords of your important accounts.

Certainly something you should be careful about.

Have you contacted paypal about the issue?

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quyasspk 12 years ago

Originally Posted by wfhblueprints

Certainly something you should be careful about.

Have you contacted paypal about the issue?

Yes I contacted and my case is investigating
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SuzanneH

12 years ago

I use Roboform to track my username/passwords, and I generate a different password via Roboform for each website/account I use.

Suzanne

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SutejoTan

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SuzanneH

I use Roboform to track my username/passwords, and I generate a different password via Roboform for each website/account I use.

Suzanne

don't depend on roboform so much. what if your master password to roboform got hacked?

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Wide

12 years ago

Originally Posted by blgts

don't depend on roboform so much. what if your master password to roboform got hacked?

Ye, that's what im concerted about too.

I have to say, I'm using 2-3 different passwords for everything.
Using gmail for my email and have it locked by the keygen-thingy, makes it more secure.

A hacker don't need to hack your Godaddy account, Web hosting account, Paypal etc etc etc .... he just need to hack your email account to get access to it all by creating new passwords for each site based on your email.

Always keep your email account as secure as possible

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Witty

12 years ago

Yeah, email account is probably the most important.

It's definitely recommended to have special characters in your email password.

Anyway, hope all gets sorted out soon mate.

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quyasspk

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Witty

Yeah, email account is probably the most important.

It's definitely recommended to have special characters in your email password.

Anyway, hope all gets sorted out soon mate.

Thanks Witty I hope I will get my money back

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Taniwha 12 years ago

Originally Posted by SuzanneH

I use Roboform to track my username/passwords, and I generate a different password via Roboform for each website/account I use.

Suzanne

Thanks for the tip!
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- ronr 12 years ago
  
  Nothing is 100% safe but this is from Roboform site:
  
  RoboForm Defeats KeyLoggers
  A computer that you use may have a keylogger installed on it, especially if this is a computer at internet cafe or at your work. Keyloggers steal your passwords if you manually type them and a third party (your employer, your wife, your competitor or simply a hacker) will be able to log into your accounts using stolen passwords. Keyloggers may be hard to detect due to their stealthing abilities. RoboForm/RoboForm2Go starting with ver 6.7.4 provides substantial protection against keyloggers.
  
  Master Password.
  Use RoboForm Virtual Keyboard to type your Master Password and keyloggers will not see it. With Virtual Keyboard you click images of keyboard buttons with mouse, not the actual buttons on keyboard, so no keyboard events are generated and keylogger do not see what you type.
  Web Site Passwords.
  
  More advanced keyloggers may attach to Internet Explorer and get password directly from the password field using IE page model. In this case they can get even passwords that are not typed. RoboForm provides two types of protection against this:
  
  • Quick Typing. Roboform enters password quickly and it presses Submit button quickly, so many keyloggers will not be fast enough to get web page password from the page. Some keyloggers, though, may be fast enough.
  
  • Firefox Factor. Firefox is more closed than Internet Explorer and attaching to it in order to steal passwords directly from fields is more difficult. We have yet to see a keylogger than can steal password directly from Firefox password field when keyboard is not used to enter it.
  
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  quyasspk 12 years ago
  
  Thanks for everybody for supporting and suggestions.
  
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  Jon Patrick 12 years ago
  
  Hopefully, you haven't actually lost $2,000. I'm fairly certain Paypal can tell the difference between you and whoever hacked your account, and will be able to rectify the situation. Good luck.
  
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lifeisfun

12 years ago

What I have learned is to keep my "financial passwords" separate from other accounts; also, i do use lastpass, but I only use it for 'nonessential' email accounts, forum accounts, or anything that's not financially related; my main email accounts that are linked to bank or credit cards or paypal I keep separate, and I do the same for my banking/paypal/credit card info. Yes, a pain, but never have to worry about an email account being hacked and losing financial info because of it.

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tianshi 12 years ago

Thats very painful and I feel for your loss. At least we can be more careful by learning the lessons that other people had to go through.
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- Joseph G Spiteri 12 years ago
  
  I use lastpass all my accounts have different passwords and
  my lastpass master password is 24 letter and number password so very difficult to hack.
  
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  quyasspk 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Joseph G Spiteri
  
  I use lastpass all my accounts have different passwords and
  my lastpass master password is 24 letter and number password so very difficult to hack.
  
  Its Great Joseph.I think this is the best way to use any automated software.
  
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- quyasspk 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by tianshi
  
  Thats very painful and I feel for your loss. At least we can be more careful by learning the lessons that other people had to go through.
  
  Thanks for supporting me.
  
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  T.R. McCarroll 12 years ago
  
  Thank you for the reminder.
  
  I must also say the fact all of us probably keep "saved passwords"
  on our browsers is another vulnerable place especially if you have
  others using your computer or take it in for repairs.
  
  T.R.
  
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quyasspk

12 years ago

Originally Posted by lifeisfun

What I have learned is to keep my "financial passwords" separate from other accounts; also, i do use lastpass, but I only use it for 'nonessential' email accounts, forum accounts, or anything that's not financially related; my main email accounts that are linked to bank or credit cards or paypal I keep separate, and I do the same for my banking/paypal/credit card info. Yes, a pain, but never have to worry about an email account being hacked and losing financial info because of it.

Yes It is pain but you are more secure.Keep it up

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CreativeFlair

12 years ago

Don't use Yahoo or Hotmail or any other email provider which has 'standard' secret questions. Always write your own secret question, or failing that, give the wrong answer to a secret question.

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santacruz

12 years ago

I'm truly agree on this and sorry about your lost.

I always have very strong password for those money sites to avoid this thing.

Thanks for sharing this to other anyway.

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quyasspk

12 years ago

Originally Posted by santacruz

I'm truly agree on this and sorry about your lost.

I always have very strong password for those money sites to avoid this thing.

Thanks for sharing this to other anyway.

Thanks for your support friend

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Yudhistira Mauris

12 years ago

I am sorry to hear that. For me $2000 is really much. It's great lesson for us.

I use lastpass and it's free.

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DSTeam

12 years ago

Sorry to hear about your loss, probably the best solution is to use a good old notebook and just write the passwords down. This way even if your pc crashes you'll have access to everything.

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quyasspk

12 years ago

Originally Posted by DSTeam

Sorry to hear about your loss, probably the best solution is to use a good old notebook and just write the passwords down. This way even if your pc crashes you'll have access to everything.

Definitely right,we should create password complex and then store it on notebook.

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quyasspk 12 years ago

Originally Posted by maurisrx

I am sorry to hear that. For me $2000 is really much. It's great lesson for us.

I use lastpass and it's free.

Hi Dear maurisrx $2000 is worth for every body if earned with lot of hardworking.Thanks for your support
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TopKat22

12 years ago

Yes, anything that has to do with money or anything that would be be devastating, I use a different, very unique with lots of special characters and as long as they will allow password. Never the same password as any email, social network or forum password.

So sorry you had to learn this the hard way. I hope you recover your losses.

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affilorama-portal

12 years ago

Yes, we should use strong passwords. A "passphrase" is actually recommended

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quyasspk

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SuzanneH

I use Roboform to track my username/passwords, and I generate a different password via Roboform for each website/account I use.

Suzanne

Originally Posted by precious007

+1

I have always used roboform.

I hope it could be safe method but if our master password is very complex and could not easily decipherable

Originally Posted by Wide

Ye, that's what im concerted about too.

I have to say, I'm using 2-3 different passwords for everything.
Using gmail for my email and have it locked by the keygen-thingy, makes it more secure.

A hacker don't need to hack your Godaddy account, Web hosting account, Paypal etc etc etc .... he just need to hack your email account to get access to it all by creating new passwords for each site based on your email.

Always keep your email account as secure as possible

I think your method is more secure
Thanks for input

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EmmaWilliams

12 years ago

This is helpful. I didn't know that was possible. I used Roboform before but for some reason I just stopped turning to that software and returned to the same old fashion method - and that is keeping the same password for every account. This is something I should consider taking seriously especially when it involves my professional websites.

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sriram rajan

12 years ago

Yes very important point .... and one to take seriously esp if you continue in to the IM world , after a while you have lots of small things to manage that this critical piece gets ignored... better late than never ;-)

Hope you get all your money back and appreciate your pointing out this to others.

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Sirr

12 years ago

Sorry to hear about the loss. I'm a sucker for it too. I need to use Roboform, but even then it's not so secure because if you got a virus they can still steal your passwords whenever you log in.

Sadly nothing is secure online. Once you got a virus you're pretty much stuffed unless you get rid of it.