Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?
On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 18:43:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:36:27 -0400 (EDT), Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I tend to think passwords (except the very simplest or guessable ones)
> > are not "discovered" but handed over.
>
> 1. My password is known only to me. Even my wife doesn't know it.
> 2. My password is a random sequence of uppercase and lowercase letters.
> It is not a pronounceable word, and it is fairly long.
> 3. I use e-mail only from my home computer.
> 4. I use wired ethernet only
> 5. I never respond to the (almost daily) phishing attacks designed to
> coax my password out of me.
> 6. My wife and I are empty nesters. There is no-one else at home.
>
> In short, I have not "handed it over".
The comment was a general one and directed at all our readers. However,
earlier you said "Someone discovered my password somehow". You have
just demolished that guess as having no basis as a likely cause.
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