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Advice on protecting an email address
Monday, 5 Sep 2011, 21:43
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Tuesday, 6 Sep 2011, 03:58
Spam is a thing of the past, however, as my password jfvernon@aol.com has been compromised, everyone on my database, including people I should have bothered to delete a long time ago, received dodgy emails for pharmaceutical products. I have changed the password; is that enough?
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Any advice on how not to get your password compromised?New comment
Don't have one. 'strong' password of nine characters that includes digits. Change your password more often than newer in over 14 years : ( The OU expects us to change our password every 3 months and alerts as the deadline is reached. I wonder if I got 70 % through a sales transaction then stopped, forgetting the page was open?New comment
This has happened to me too. Whilst I cannot offer any technical advice, informing the service provider seems to have stopped it from reoccuring in my case.