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expired Posted by Discombobulated | Staff • Dec 12, 2024
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Needs to be done after every free game you claim.
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When you are notified has nothing to do with when the password was compromised. So what you did recently is irrelevant. It will take months between a "hack" and a password being recognized as compromised. It is definitely not instantaneous. GOG *could* get "hacked", but what you wrote isn't evidence of that.
The most common ways passwords are stolen is either the user giving it away (to a bad actor or falsified login form), or a compromised admin account that has too much access.
To limit your exposure:
1. Use a different password for every site. Use a reputable password manager to make that really easy (Bitwarden, 1password, keepass, keeper, etc). If you don't like the idea of trusting one site with all your passwords, consider that by using one password you are trusting EVERY site all your passwords.
2. Use 2 factor auth (2fa) whenever possible. Preferably TOTP rather than email or phone but anything is better than none. This makes your password less useful to bad actors.
3. Use pass phrase style passwords as they are more secure (longer) and easier to type when you can't let your manager enter it for you.
4. Always confirm the site and NEVER give a password to anybody, even if they say they are from the site.
Sorry for the long off topic post but this doesn't have to be hard. I recently taught my 80 year old mother to use a password manager and she has mentioned repeatedly how much easier it is.
When you are notified has nothing to do with when the password was compromised. So what you did recently is irrelevant. It will take months between a "hack" and a password being recognized as compromised. It is definitely not instantaneous. GOG *could* get "hacked", but what you wrote isn't evidence of that.
The most common ways passwords are stolen is either the user giving it away (to a bad actor or falsified login form), or a compromised admin account that has too much access.
To limit your exposure:
1. Use a different password for every site. Use a reputable password manager to make that really easy (Bitwarden, 1password, keepass, keeper, etc). If you don't like the idea of trusting one site with all your passwords, consider that by using one password you are trusting EVERY site all your passwords.
2. Use 2 factor auth (2fa) whenever possible. Preferably TOTP rather than email or phone but anything is better than none. This makes your password less useful to bad actors.
3. Use pass phrase style passwords as they are more secure (longer) and easier to type when you can't let your manager enter it for you.
4. Always confirm the site and NEVER give a password to anybody, even if they say they are from the site.
Sorry for the long off topic post but this doesn't have to be hard. I recently taught my 80 year old mother to use a password manager and she has mentioned repeatedly how much easier it is.
This message was my password vault. an it was telling me one of my passwords was leaked. An it showed me the 8/10,000 sites that still had that ancient password. And half of those likely were changed too.
So i can easily assume the one I actually signed into in the last few years couldve been the one that trigged an alert 2 days after i signed in. How else are they gonna target my 8 most useless passwords. so you are talking about things that dont mean anything when adding it all together
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