Re: Hacker Warning

[Michael Hendry]

> On 13 Jul 2018, at 16:34, Karlin High <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 7/13/2018 10:27 AM, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> I have taken steps to improve the security of my passwords.
> 
> I'd be lost without a password manager. Quite a few to choose from, I can 
> think of 1Password, Dashlane, Encryptr, KeePass, LastPass... various 
> architectures and business models among them.
> 
> Managing many hundreds of unique random passwords used from various locations 
> and devices gets pretty impractical any other way.


PS see: 
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/12/ransomware-technique-uses-your-real-passwords-to-trick-you/

What is described here is precisely the message I received, with my password 
for a couple of sites replaced by “X”.

If the theory that this has resulted from a corporate break-in is true, it is 
odd that the email arrived on a day when I’d accessed two rarely-used sites 
which shared the same password.

Michael