For sites I don’t use too often, I was always tempted to reuse passwords
which is a pretty bad practice, so I started just using the forgot password
feature more often. So I have a ridiculous entirely random password that I
don’t know, and then just say forgot password when I want to log in.

It’s could also be a good way to go about changing all your passwords—and
side effect is it confirms your backup email.

Cheerio,

Ashim
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 16:55, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 2:42 AM Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 2:04 PM Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 1. Log out all gmail/facebook/other social sessions (Most providers
> give
> > > you the option to "log out all current sessions")
> > > 2. Change all the passwords of pwned email addresses
> > > 3. Enable 2FA EVERYWHERE that supports it. Ideally, with a hardware
> token
> > > such as a yubikey.
> > >
> >
> > Additionally, I'd also suggest you log in to your various (potentially)
> > compromised accounts, check under security setting to see if the backup
> > email address (where password reset notifications are sent) and backup
> > phone number have been tampered with.
> >
>
>
> In addition to all of those steps, I also recommend using unique passwords
> in all the sites. It is not going to be possible for you to remember that
> many unique passwords (especially if you choose strong passwords). I
> recommend you choose strong passwords that you memorize for one or two of
> your key accounts (Google, Facebook). And use a password management (I
> personally use keepass) to generate and store strong unique passwords for
> your other sites.
>
> Thaths
>
>
> >
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> >
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> >
>
>
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