773 MILLION passwords/email addresses stolen

Thanks Ed: checking my passwords now, deleting and changing if necessary.

Nobody cares about me. Not a single one of my 8 most used passwords has been pawned ?

Difficult for me to search as I use so many different email addresses.  My most secure password isn’t there but my second one is but I can’t tell which email it came from.   One of my email addresses on there is from ebay but I suspect it came from one of their 3rd parties which email me junk occasionally.

I’ve been migrating my logins away from my old aol email address – which did show up on the pwnd web page, so luckily it doesn’t carry across to my new email address, which doesn’t appear.

At the same time, but with a greater degree of difficulty, I’m migrating the wife across onto a free LastPass account to better integrate with my LP Premium account. So long as it is as easy to access her web accounts off LP as it is through the insecure browser security, I’m onto a winner. But not an easy sell!! It also makes it easier for her ( well me on her laptop ) to randomly generate secure passwords and still log in with just a few clicks.

Thanks for the heads up.?

Steve wrote: –

The Duke wrote:

I really don’t know what she gets up to, it seems. She is far beyond what her siblings was at.  These kids are for brighter than we take them for. I bet the one behind the hack was only 12.

Daughter’s two are our 25 yo gson (IT Technician, local expanding company) and a 13 yo gdaughter (getting A and A* at a local Grammar). After a few years of complaining that his sister was “annoying” they have become really close, mainly due to her growing IT skills. They are now bouncing ideas off each other. His latest moan to me was that she will probably catch him up soon! Listening to gdaughter talking to her mates makes my head hurt. Daughter and SIL gave up trying to understand her homework last year.

I really believe that this latest generation are evolving humans, and that all the Autism/Aspergers and brilliant kids are a sign of it. Your youngest will probably make your head hurt in a few short years’ time, Steve!

Yes my youngest gson is dyslexic, words “float about” he says, can’t write them down. Yet he can rattle down every password he has on PC, laptop and phone, doesn’t even think about it: “I’m on THIS website – type THIS password”, straight out of his head. We have always struggled with him at school and college, most of which was up to me and my missus, as his dad our son is also dyslexic, though not as bad with words. His dad also works like a dog, had to, brought up gson and sister on his own (with our help) from 2 and 4 years old. Gson also does massive mental Maths in his head, can’t write down the working out but always gets it right. He can also be lazy, failed his Electrical Installations course because the Government brought in a rule in his last few months that all college courses had to include an English and Maths qualification. Passed the Maths easily, had 3 tries at the English but it drives him mad. If they let him do it by computer, it would be a breeze, but he can’t write it down. He had passed all the electrical stuff by a mile, what a waste of a good potential Sparky. He settled for 2 days at an engineering workshop where he had been since Work Experience at school from 14, would not stir himself to get a full time job. Both his dad and me kept nagging him. Finally grandma stepped in and frightened him out of his wits. (my missus is tiny, but has a way with kids!) On Wednesday we took him to a Job Fair at Skegness Butlins and he looks like getting a job there in Engineering Maintenance. He was on fire for it until I asked him if he is OK with living in during the week: its 25 miles from his village and the first bus is at 07:12, takes 1½ hours. He is about to take his CBT bike training and test, then get a scooter/moped from the Council, paid monthly. That’s OK in the warmer months, I told him, but the Maintenance is not seasonal, it’s all year: what about the horrible East Coast winter weather? Silence – they don’t think things through.

He is a massive lad with a lovely temperament, but has been a bigger problem than all the other 3 gkids combined. Just does not think about what is going to happen next week, next year, etc. He could spend for England as well. I see him a lot, as I pick him up from the Engineering shop twice a week and he does come to us a lot, will do anything for us. So I probably understand him more than his dad, but that’s not a lot of understanding as he is very deep and keeps things inside a lot.

Bloody kids, thought I had done with all that years ago!???