Data Leak?

[Briar Lee]

Signing on this morning a little box showed up on my iPhone warning me that my password for this site was involved in a data leak.

The real nice fellers offered to change it to a strong password for me, but I was kinder suspicious.

Seems every day lately I get a text message my various digital money accounts are about to be shut down iff’n I don’t contact somebody, but that don’t never happen, anymore than I’ve won the top prize at Walmarts of a thousand dollars, neither.

This old sin cussed world full of woe is full of shysters, three card Monte men and other thieves, but I just thought I’d inquire if there is anything to this warning of a data breech.

 

[jackets]

It’s likely that the password you use for this site was compromised elsewhere. I strongly recommend using as many unique passwords as possible. Apple has a baked in generator and password manager, and there are many third party options.

 

[captpat]

Passwords of at least 15 characters are exceptionally hard to break, at least until quantum computing matures.

 

[bullet08]

Don't trust anything that says you are compromised. Never go to a link suggested. Do it yourself through proper channel within the OS or proper web that you know.

 

[ssjones]

Don't trust anything that says you are compromised. Never go to a link suggested. Do it yourself through proper channel within the OS or proper web that you know.

Bingo.

 

[Piping Abe]

If someones trying to hack pipe and tobacco websites, they must be resellers of small batch blends.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Could it be your virus protection program on your computer warned you?
I did not get this warning, but I have gotten warnings when logging in on other things that my password was old or similar to other passwords.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Could it be your virus protection program on your computer warned you?
I did not get this warning, but I have gotten warnings when logging in on other things that my password was old or similar to other passwords.

Same, via the passwords/settings on whatever device - I take those seriously, anything with a link, lol, no way.

Right now the worst spammer I have is an asshat that runs some "National Gun Owner" outfit (I'm not anti-gun, haha, just anti-asshat). Like many, the "unsubscribe" isn't real, and they just keep coming, along with affiliated spammer emails - but now go automatically to junk. Until I decided just to accept the fact they'd never stop, I did manage to track the guy down and we had a nice phone conversation.

 

[Grangerous]

You should strengthen your passsssword. Perhaps, 5 STAR LEE just isn’t cutting it anymore.

 

[anotherbob]

Don't trust anything that says you are compromised. Never go to a link suggested. Do it yourself through proper channel within the OS or proper web that you know.

I don't know. It's often how I've found out I even have an account at a certain web site or bank.

 

[PipeIT]

Signing on this morning a little box showed up on my iPhone warning me that my password for this site was involved in a data leak.

The real nice fellers offered to change it to a strong password for me, but I was kinder suspicious.

Seems every day lately I get a text message my various digital money accounts are about to be shut down iff’n I don’t contact somebody, but that don’t never happen, anymore than I’ve won the top prize at Walmarts of a thousand dollars, neither.

This old sin cussed world full of woe is full of shysters, three card Monte men and other thieves, but I just thought I’d inquire if there is anything to this warning of a data breech.

KeePassium is really good!

Free version too!

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[Chasing Embers]

If someones trying to hack pipe and tobacco websites, they must be resellers of small batch blends.

All I've seen are bots, CBD sellers, and passport assistants.

 

[Briar Lee]

When my father died in 1971, of infection from swallowing a bone he didn’t know he’d swallowed, about a month after he died a $700 bill came from a tractor dealership he’d bought a used tractor from a few years earlier.

In spite of my 13 year old protests and pleas my mother paid the bill. Grown ups treat kids like potted plants. I went with my father to that dealership, I knew they were swindlers, and if they hadn’t had a monopoly on tractor parts for a certain make of tractor my father would never have dealt with them. My father didn’t operate on credit, and especially not from such disreputable outfits like them.

When I passed the bar 40 years ago it wasn’t uncommon for automotive repair shops to bill widows for service after they’d read of a death in the paper, for a customer that patronized the shop.

Larceny using a pen has been common for a long time.

Our generation has to deal with crooks using computers.

 

[condorlover1]

I love those emails you get and I love even more the Car Warranty calls you get that go like this....

Hello Mr. Condorlover we are giving you a call about your car warranty before we close the file. Press 1 to speak to one of our warranty specialists.

* click #1 *

Salesman: Hi Mr. Condorlover can I have the make, model and year of your car please.

Me: I have a 1913 Model T Ford with 200,000 miles on the odometer and I am the first owner and a new warranty would be wonderful.

Salesman: Do you have a more recent car?

Me: No.

Salesman: * click *

 

[sablebrush52]

The Internet is rife with criminality and shows no limits to scumbaggery. I wish there was a way to retrace the path a scam took to get to me and send a lethal dose of electricity to the source.
Lacking that, your best defense is to treat every email and every unknown caller with suspicion. It’s a shame, but there are millions of crooks engaged with actively seeking to screw you, and not in a pleasant manner.
Email that attempts a familiarity that doesn’t exist gets trashed.
Pretty much all emails of an unclear nature get trashed without being opened.
All unknown callers automatically get sent to voicemail.
Every site has its own password, long and randomly generated, and I also use 2 step verification when available. Passwords get updated regularly.
I’ll probably go to Ubikey to simplify some of this.
But it’s a healthy skepticism towards anything that comes over the Net that’s fundamental.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Could it be your virus protection program on your computer warned you?
I did not get this warning, but I have gotten warnings when logging in on other things that my password was old or similar to other passwords.

My iPhone recently popped up a message to that effect, and I wonder if it's the same thing @Briar Lee saw. Rather than following any links, I went into my phone's settings, and sure enough, it had decided to warn me that certain saved passwords were either too simple, or were the same as other saved passwords. I went ahead and updated those to be unique and more complex.

Thanks, iPhone!

 

[Briar Lee]

The Internet is rife with criminality and shows no limits to scumbaggery. I wish there was a way to retrace the path a scam took to get to me and send a lethal dose of electricity to the source.
Lacking that, your best defense is to treat every email and every unknown caller with suspicion. It’s a shame, but there are millions of crooks engaged with actively seeking to screw you, and not in a pleasant manner.
Email that attempts a familiarity that doesn’t exist gets trashed.
Pretty much all emails of an unclear nature get trashed without being opened.
All unknown callers automatically get sent to voicemail.
Every site has its own password, long and randomly generated, and I also use 2 step verification when available. Passwords get updated regularly.
I’ll probably go to Ubikey to simplify some of this.
But it’s a healthy skepticism towards anything that comes over the Net that’s fundamental.

One recurring scam I see is some old man about our age getting romantic on the internet with a young girl. She’ll show him hers, and request the old man to show her his.

Then the extortion begins demanding money or else he’ll be arrested, his wife, children and employer informed, etc.

These clients bypass the legal assistants if they can, walking straight in my office.

I’ve used this line for many years, dealing with frauds.

Hello, I’m a lawyer.

Look outside wherever you are.

There are two worlds you can live in, that world you see, or the inside of a cell in beautiful Leavenworth, Kansas.

You have no way of knowing it, but you’ve just picked the worst possible person to mess with,

Me.

Choose wisely.

(Clients love it, and it makes me smile)

Indianapolis Man Sentenced to 57 Months in Federal Prison for Defrauding Senior Victims in International Romance Scam | United States Secret Service

www.secretservice.gov

 

[condorlover1]

@Briar Lee : That's not bad. I will remember that one. I had a late friend in New Orleans, also an attorney who would do something similar but described the amazing social amenities available to inmates of Angola Prison in Louisiana.

 

[Briar Lee]

@Briar Lee : That's not bad. I will remember that one. I had a late friend in New Orleans, also an attorney who would do something similar but described the amazing social amenities available to inmates of Angola Prison in Louisiana.

The sexting scammers are the worst of the scum, but perhaps the most effective are the ones that send a check (usually by Canadian mail, hoping to avoid mail fraud charges) the mark is told to deposit and send a portion back to cover taxes in a Canadian lottery the mark has won.

They even have the correct Canadian lottery web site listed.

The Canadian Lottery - The Largest Lottery Prize in The World

www.cndlottery.com

I’ll ask when the mark actually bought a Canadian lottery ticket, and they never have.

The check will bounce, and the wire transfer the mark gives will be to an untraceable account in the Bahamas.

 

[condorlover1]

Canada. The northern most part of Lagos, Nigeria!