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Multiple sites and companies (hello Sony) have been caught storing passwords in the open. It's not as common as it used to be, but it has happened before and will happen again.
I guess the good thing is that I allow only a limited amount of sites to keep my credit card number. I know it can still be hacked and stolen, but at least it narrows it down to which site I lost it on. I don't keep it here or Rendo or any of the smaller sites. No guarantees, but it makes me FEEL safer, even if it's not. LOL. And I use long passwords with symbols, numbers and upper and lower case letters whenever I can. Anyone on the internet can (and does) get hacked. Be prepared to have it happen to you from time to time, because it's only going to get worse.
Laurie
People are stupid, nothing short of bursting into flames changes most people’s minds... and even then many hold fast to their intentions.
I fear everything will get way, way, way (add about fifteen more “ways”), worse before it becomes even remotely a tad better.
I’m already sick of the internet as it just keeps getting more and more annoying day by day, but unfortunately society has made it a required part of our lives in one way or another.
True, but I'm just saying if our passwords are hashed, then Daz doesn't have our password, nor is it stored on any server, nor can Daz or anyone else send it to you in an email. So, there are some unanswered questions here.
Just checked my email, no ransom mail there yet, just a bunch of spam from square enix, msi and walmart like usual lol.
...this is part of why I washed out of call centre customer service as I had to remember several long very cryptic passwords to access the various programmes and databases that were used. The passwords had to be changed each month as well and could not be written down. Not good for someone with memory issues and dyslexia.
Recently, some security experts have voiced the opinion that forcing people to change their passwords on a regular basis drives people toward unsafe password behavior. First, the very act of changing a password exposes you to potential risk if that site is currently under attack, or already hacked. Second, having to change passwords tends to make people use simpler passwords, or a simple sequence of passwords. Given a short sequence of old passwords, white hat hackers demonstrated that they could guess the new one in about ... 5 seconds. It's not so much recovering passwords from the hash that is at risk, it's the fact that brute force attacks are getting easier with faster hardware.
No ransom demands in my spam folder, but I did find an email from rendo in spam because it had the subject "Make your Sci-Fi dreams come true"! ROFL!
These kind of scams are common. I get reports daily of people who receive fake ransom notes from phishing email where I work. I also have had my data stolen from numerous sites, and companies, where all my data has been compromised.
So, the only way to remain secure is to choose a password with complexity and change it and the email in each account with more frequency.
Yup, that's what I got. A few demands that I send bitcoins to some account, or they would send my (non-existent) porn history to everyone I know. One of the messages said "I know one of your passwords is [DAZ Password]."
If it was an actual ransom demand, they would have changed your Daz account email/password and demanded ransom to get the account back. Same as encrypting your data and decrypting it for ransom money. This is peanuts, ignore it. It's only a little bit more elaborate than some Ugandan prince wanting to send you money for the upteenth time.
Use a free password manager like KeePass and have it generate all your passwords. 128 or 256 bit strings that can easily be copy/pasted and you won't ever have to remember passwords again, so beyond the better security it's also convenient. Just make sure the KeePass database gets backed up too, you don't wanna lose that. Otherwise you're gonna have to go through a lot of "forgot password" procedures. I find it also provides a good overview of all the places I ever registered at. You know, every web shop, forum, news site, sites from all the software you bought online and so on and so forth. I currently have 143 entires in there! What the hell... it's almost like a history of past interests.
If you think having all these passwords in some local file is insecure, it's not. Someone would have to hack into your actual computer to get to it, and that simply never happens as it's not worth the effort. The biggest risk would be your unlocked computer with KeePass open and some disgruntled family member taking advantage of it. Even for those scenarios, KeePass has security measures like automatic log out after a while, keeping the password in the clip board only for a certain period, yada yada.
There is no safe way to protect yourself and your computers if you are connected to a network PERIOD!!!! Once you connect you are open to hacking! The best you can do is make sure you keep sesitive data off your personal computers and phones and on seperate media (USB sticks)! If people create security >>> people can break it! Nothing is full proof! My advice don't leave anything you don't want to share on your phones or computers!! ~ my 2 cents
Got to be the Russians..... no, it's the Chinese..... no, better yet, it's the Luxomburgians..... they are an evil crowd, alligned with the Venusians......
It is a virtual character like in Ralph Breaks the Internet?
Thanks for this, I just checked my Daz Password at https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords, and it was in there...5 times!
Just changed it! ;-)
Checked it out. P3@ch3$ (a fictional password) was not part of the list but P@$$W0rd was. Wonder if I can use P3@ch3$ since I mentioned it here. By the way it did not have my real Daz Password, (edit) but it has my Renderosity password which I need to change when I get home. I could do it now but there is no way to save the password in my password manager and I might forget it, unless I use a form of P3@ch3$?
Mine isn't there I can see, I think it's at least 2 years years ago since I changed it.
ETA: it's incredible how bad passwords people are using. Just try to check "john"...
mwokee brought up some good points. Another thing to avoid is public wifi. Never log in to ANYTHING while using wifi (like at Starbucks) unless you don't care who has that username and password.
Also keep in mind that if your PC is compromised, it doesn't matter how good the security of some website vendor is, and a given website/company may have absolutely nothing to do with data stolen from your PC as you type while you happen to visit that or any other website.
Priceless! ROFL
Haha, the number "1" has been used 197.972 times as a password XD
That's the one I got and yes, they did have my DAZ password too. Like you, I was unconcerned about threats to publish my porn viewing history because I don't view porn. My social media exposure is also minimal. There was something in the email (I've deleted it but I seem to recall) about them having access to my webcam with a threat to publish compromising footage of myself and some partner. I really had to laugh at that - I don't have an active webcam and I have not had a partner for many years.
I’ve been getting weird ransom emails from people saying that they have video of me doing (something guys usually only do) on a webcam to porn. I have my webcam covered on one computer and no webcam at all on my other monitor and I don’t visit porn sites. They had one password, not from here though. An old one that I’m not sure which site I used it for. I cover my iPad cameras too, but not my phone, which I probably should just to avoid any possible ugly no-makeup videos lol. Also, a Russian troll on Twitter (I assume) posted weird random old photos of people on Google that linked to my Twitter account. The Internet is becoming a dangerous place...
Are there really sites out there that allow 1 letter passwords?
This is really scary! Tonight on 60 Minutes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/evgeniy-mikhailovich-bogachev-the-growing-partnership-between-russia-government-and-cybercriminals-60-minutes/
Oh drat, now I can't use "password", "123456", or "monkey" anymore!
Well, I did change my password just now too. Just to be sure. Now I'll have to change my password on all my devices all over again!
Passwords don't work; I've said this for a long time now. They're just not working. We have so many that we have to write them down. Yes, in a password manager, sure. But still. That's not really security. And to make up for that, we mask them and have to look at dots when we type them in, so we get them wrong and we forget them and have to call the help desk or use the password change feature, sometimes several times each month!
Passwords don't work; not really.
Changed my password to mypassword
I thought I'd check out a common phrase shitonastick (not my password) and here is what I got, so 5 times is not so bad, especially if it is you on various sites but I do have a unique password only used at Daz after my bank alerted me in 2017 that my card was used to buy a pizza in germany and I live in California. And that password I only use at Daz has never been compromised. I used that i2017 card on 2 other sites, both 3d providers, nowhere else and stopped using it on the other sites and have had no issues since.
Also if you get a warning alert the worst thing you can do is click a link. Instead hold down ctrl alt& delete. Click task manager and select the browser google eg and click end task. It stops the app that activates if you click a link.