Important: Password security

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sluggers

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May 26, 2008
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We have received some indication that a person or group is trying to steal people's accounts.

Most of the time, accounts are broken into due to bad passwords. E.g., PASSWORD is a common password. So is 12345. A hacker needs only to find a list of user names, and then input the names and one of the dozens of common passwords. If he has enough user names and time, he will be successful.

It is relatively easy to have a good, secure password.

In your password:

Use one capital letter.
Use one number.
Use one special character.

The best approach is to use a phrase rather than a word.

E.g., Riseballsdontrise!

You could also use number substitution...substituting numbers for letters:

Ris3ba11sd0ntris3!

Ray
 
Jul 6, 2013
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Dang it!!! Now I have to change my password from riseballsdontrise. Thanks for that!
 
Oct 1, 2014
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I looked up the IP address of whoever tried logging into my account (5 times failed and locked out) and it showed up as somewhere in Ukraine.
 
Aug 26, 2011
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Houston, Texas
And what do they hope to gain by doing this? Password I use on here is exclusively for this site only. Didn't we have this same issue about a year ago or so? Same part of country too.
 

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