Hi,
Not so long ago, someone broke into my another.com email account (without, as far as I know, using my password or security question). How do they do this? How do I protect against it?
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Are you sure that’s what happened? I’ve had people in the past talk about others using their account, only to discover there was another reason.
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As far as passwords are concerned, there’s no way to make they 100% secure if someone really wants to break in. Even a brute force attack (trying every possible combination) can only take a couple of weeks, and it’s likely that your password was something that could be guessed easily enough.
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Your best bet for a safer password is something that isn’t a word in a dictionary. Mix in a few numbers and non-alphanumeric characters: “jcc&1dc” as an example.
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The only solution is to change your password frequently and make sure no one else can find it out (i.e., don’t write it down anywhere). If you need a mnemonic, use a phrase; that password in #3 could be remembered as “Jimmy Crack Corn & I Don’t Care.”
What do you mean Sparky? What did they do? What type of message did you get? Without knowing that I really can’t tell you what to do.