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Last week I had another client whose email account was compromised. The hackers used her account to create sub-accounts. With access to her email, they could see who she did business with and try the email address with the discovered password to try to gain access to those accounts. Since she used the same password, they were able to access her other accounts at merchants and make purchases.

My client was alerted by a merchant about the fraudulent activity and she noticed the sub-accounts in her email. She brought me in to deal with the aftermath. I changed about 10 account passwords and deleted the email sub-accounts. She may have more fraud to deal with but we handled the big accounts.

Use strong passwords and do not reuse them on various sites with whom you do business! Using a password manager is recommended so that you can create and use strong passwords.

One of the largest breaches called "Collection #1" was discovered on January 7, 2019. Is contains 772,904,991 unique email address/password combinations.

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Don't worry. It may look scary but it is absolutely legitimate, created by web security expert, Troy Hunt.

If your email address/addresses have been exposed, change your password immediately, make it very complex, don't reuse your password on other sites, and be sure to provide your cell phone number so that you can be verified.

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address has been compromised.

Watch for this if you have a LinkIn account!

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