arnold

Programmer

litmic

Principal Software Engineer

Dr. Klahn

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Some good practices to prevent this in the future:<br />

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<li>Do not use the same password for multiple accounts</li>
<li>Use strong passwords = lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, special characters.</li>
<li>Do not store your passwords in plain text.</li>
<li>Change your passwords on a regular basis</li>
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Fractional CTO

David Favor

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The spam source as coming from Bitcoin as was pointed out is a phishing &nbsp;to combine two items to make it appear as though ...<br />
If not mistaken,bitcoin is the more widely known.<br />
Your post included the have &nbsp;I been hacked link where you can search by the email address and it will tell you which compromised entities this leaked from.<br />
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Not make sure where available that you use MFA/2FA mechanism. Use different security questions for important type of accounts.
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The ideal thing is to use a separate email account for your Finances, and maybe a separate one just for bitcoin. &nbsp;Don't use your name in any part of that email, and don't use it for anything else. &nbsp;Isolate the email and you can isolate the spam.
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To provide secure password management:<br>• Create complex passwords; Create passwords or passphrases that are hard to guess but easy for you to remember.<br>• Apply multi-factor authentication.<br>• Increase password complexity depending on the importance of the data/services.<br>• Ensure that these passwords are changed regularly, not reused, and not used on multiple systems/services.<br>• If you have trouble keeping track of your passwords, use a password manager.<br>• Avoid recording passwords. However, when necessary, be sure that any such files of recorded passwords are encrypted.<br>• On websites that you rarely visit, consider initially setting a random complex password,. When you need to visit the site again, click the forgot password link to reset the password and gain access.
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Receive a Fraudulent e-mail from bitcon with subject of my email password. How bitcon know my email password?
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Receive a Fraudulent e-mail from bitcon with subject of my email password. How bitcon know my email password?

Fraudulent e-mail

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Email Servers

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