Surely, if for a moment, you stop to think about all the different accounts-and passwords-that you have today, you'd be surprised: from your social networks, your flight and hotel accounts or your personal and professional mail, up to -even- your bank passwords. And, is that, every time we register in online profiles to a greater extent, but, also, more cases of intrusion, data theft and lack of network security are registered. And, sometimes, the ignorance on the part of the user can be a problem.
In this article we show you how to know if your email has been affected by a data theft .
Have you ever have you considered if your accounts have been exposed to data theft?
Remember when, a couple of years ago – around 2016 – it was alerted that, in the LinkedIn social network, hundreds and hundreds had been hacked of passwords and profiles that threatened to be sold on the deep web? Or when the huge security breach occurred in 2013, in Yahoo affected 3,000 million user accounts worldwide?
Without a doubt, the Internet is a great tool that offers us instant knowledge and a host of advantages, much greater than we have had at any time in history, but – likewise – it is also true that there are many risks, especially in privacy that we should try to avoid at any cost in the digital world
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The importance of a secure password
The basic and essential rule is to have strong passwords ] in your profiles and accounts: as those that combine uppercase and lowercase letters, with symbols and numbers, that are not highly deductible or easy to guess (as the well-known 12345admin), change the password with re lative frequency and, of course, not save the data on computers. Your passwords are yours alone!
In addition, another tip we have to give you is that, always, pay attention to that sem color match that usually appears under the password , when you are creating it for the first time: if you have a percentage lower than 50% of security (and the color of the traffic light is red / orange), we advise you to change it. The most recommendable thing is that it is higher than 70% . Make sure you are at this threshold to avoid having any kind of problem.
The need to review your accounts in a fluid way
Many times we are not at all aware of the frequency with which data thefts occur. Internet, and therefore, go unnoticed. So, on the one hand, it is necessary that the potential victims of these robberies (which could perfectly be you or me) begin to be committed to our accounts and on the other hand that we begin to be aware of the seriousness of these cyber attacks .
Although, sadly, it is not so easy to detect data theft, it is true that there are tools like haveibeenpwned.com of totally free use, which are perfectly useful to evaluate if your emails could have been at risk or exposed to data theft. An easy and simple tool, whose sole purpose is to generate a benefit to the community, making us participants (and aware) of the seriousness of cyber attacks.
This website was created by the Australian expert in web security Troy Hunt after, in 2013, millions of Adobe accounts were hacked, in a large cyberattack that affected many more profiles of the that the brand considered in the first instance, since many of them were classified as inactive.
Therefore, and in conclusion, it is important that you are always well aware of the accounts that you have, as well as your passwords, and alert you at the moment in which any password generates a suspicious error. It is true that hackers are too smart for us to predict their actions, but … better (try) to prevent, than to cure!
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