I’ve had around a dozen credit cards compromised in the last 20 years. A minor inconvenience mostly. Just contact the company and they close the current account and open a new one for you. You’re not on the hook for anything. I’ve had email accounts stolen via a number of hacks. Target, PayPal, Ebay, others. Sometimes I close the account, sometimes change the password. My important accounts have strong passwords and email accounts that are rarely used. My investment account is accessed by an email account only used for that account with a super strong password which I change every few months. Same for my bank account.
Let me ask, how many of you use password as the password on your HMC? I know most of the shops I worked at did. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, February 15, 2024, 11:40 AM, rpinion865 <[email protected]> wrote: Regarding the OPM incident. I received a letter stating that my information had been accessed. I have never worked for the federal government, nor have I ever applied for a job with the federal government. I contacted the OPM to find out why they would have my information. After several weeks, I received a letter stating that they could not locate anything pertaining to me. Next, I asked my US representative to look into the matter. The US representative's office received the same reply that I did. So, did they have my information or not??? Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Thursday, February 15th, 2024 at 11:32 AM, Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Reading the articles, I find a similar thing that is done: Paying > for a year of ID theft insurance or some such. > > Here is the situation for those of us that were part of the OPM > cracking from 2015: > > Random attempts to open bank accounts by bad actors in our name > (which ever one of us it happens/ed to be) > > Random attempts to open credit accounts by bad actors in our name > (which ever one it happens to). > > So OPM did the one year thing to find out that it would have to > become permanent. So I get regular notices of attempts to open an > account. One person I personally know who was in law enforcement > and worked with Secret Service and Home land security is > constantly having problems like this. > > My point is, once this has happened, you never know when you are > going to get hit and from what direction. And so these guys think > that 1 year of such "protection" is going to help. > > And for those of you who own property, you might want to make > sure that you get notified if there is any activity, such as a > lien for some credit thing, or even a quit claim deed being > filed. You might have your property sold out from under you. > > Just say'n'. > > BTW -- that OPM crack included data on people that were not > getting clearances, but had to be talked with about the person > applying for the clearance(s). So this even included foreign > nationals that one is related to!! > > So depending on the entity that is cracked, the information gets > into the dark web and it may include people that didn't even know > they had anything to do with the entity that got cracked. > > Security on mainframes (and others) sometimes has a greater reach > when cracked than we realize. > > Steve Thompson > > On 2/15/2024 10:54 AM, P H wrote: > > > Passwords and hackers. Is there anything safe? > > > > https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/02/15/southern-water-admits-data-breach-may-impact-nearly-half-million-customers?utm_source=related-content-bullet-list > > > > https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/02/15/state-sponsored-hackers-using-ai-cyber-attacks-microsoft-warns?utm_campaign=E%2BT > > News - Template Redesign 15 Feb (Split test)&utm_content=E%26T News - > > Members&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&utm_term=865089 > > > > Sent from Outlook for Androidhttps://aka.ms/AAb9ysg > > ________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] on behalf of > > Jack Zukt [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2024 3:25:18 PM > > To: [email protected] [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Insecure security - was SDSF PS Command column > > > > Hi Bill, > > I can relate to your suspicions about password managers. Not to long ago > > Lastpass found out that they have been hacked, which must have been a big > > problem for its end users (which, fortunately I am not). On the other hand, > > I have way too many passwords to be manageable without a password manager. > > So, I use not one, but two. With different master passwords. And using a > > password manager will not prevent you from sharing passwords with trusted > > friends. I usually tell my colleagues that use excel or notepad to keep > > their passwords to try and use keepass. It is as easy to use as those > > methods but far for secure. > > Regards > > Jack > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
