While it appears that most of these accounts are based in Europe, it’s never too soon to change your password.
I use an old hotmail account as my backup/secondary email for Gmail, so it’s very important to keep this secure for me.
I did just notice that Hotmail has a new feature to require a password change ever 72 days, which is an excellent feature. My company requires new passwords every 90 days, and while it can get frustrating at times, it’s an absolutely stellar security feature.
Remember: Use words you can’t find in the dictionary, use a combination of numbers, letters, symbols, and upper and lower case letters. Change it up a bit, use numbers at the beginning or toss a % in the middle of your password…
Eric
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I think it is a good move to prevent your mail id from being hacked.
But, creating new password and remembering them is a difficult task.
I know people effected by this hack. I find using an acronym is good for creating memorable passwords that aren’t in the dictionary
I hate hackers
. I’m happy because I don’t use gmail !
Just use characters like @#%$ , numbers and digits to make your password strong and none will hack it , unless you share informations about it .
Using hard password sometimes also trouble because we could forget what we enter. But if too easy, hacker will crack the password. This is really dilemma. Changing the password also dilemma because if we use like 2-3 email, can you remember all of them?
I use a simple algorithm for all my passwords. I will mix the company name (yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc) with a number (phone number, house number, license number etc).
For example: Suppose my phone number is 2447723. Then my yahoo password will be something like “2y4a4h7o7o23″. In gmail I will use “2g4m4a7i7l23″. In hotmail I will use “2h4o4t7m7a2i3l”.
This method is very good to keep your password safe. It will be easy for you to remember and will be hard for others to guess.
Zeol,
That’s a great idea. A bit more complex than my own system, but it’s very useful and easy to remember.