Being hacked.
Being hacked is never fun for anyone, as much as you try to keep yourself safe online and have the most secure password imaginable your account still can get hacked from no fault of your own.
Even if you don't sign up to dodgy sites or click dodgy links, your account can still get hacked. How? you ask, well even some of the most well known sites, for example facebook, still get data breaches where thousands of accounts gets leaked online to public forums.
Even if you don't sign up to dodgy sites or click dodgy links, your account can still get hacked. How? you ask, well even some of the most well known sites, for example facebook, still get data breaches where thousands of accounts gets leaked online to public forums.
Most people think that if any of there accounts are hacked they have been targeted personally, but that is not the case. Most hackers aren't even hackers, they are known as crackers thats where people get mixed up. A hacker normally has a lot of technological knowledge and are targeting people or databases or unsecure sites.
But crackers do it completely different and in most cases your account has been taken over by a cracker. Crackers don't have to much technological knowledge, well not as much as a hacker would have normally.
How crackers get hold of your account without targeting anyone directly is they go on forums, there's a lot of forums out there for people who crack where they download databases that have been targeted and shared by hackers. They run that database through many programs to detect working accounts for targeted sites, normally to make money or for personal use.
There is many sites out there that can tell you if your accounts have been breached and leaked online, for example i will list a couple of sites that tell you what sites have had a database breach.
- Snusbase
- DeHashed
- GhostProject.fr
There's loads more out there for you to check if you search 'database breaches' into google.
If your account has been breached make sure to change your password straight away because you don't know where it has been posted or who has access to your information.
If your account has been breached make sure to change your password straight away because you don't know where it has been posted or who has access to your information.
If you like to see my other blogs ill link them below, hopefully they might help you out and give you some more information on how to stay safe online.
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