The number of sites forcing you to use your email address as a login is a bad trend.
Two other things I hate: password resets via email, and password hints. FYI, I got a notice from VZW they are stopping use of last 4 digits of SSN as PIN. Yes, that was very secure. Like the doctors who only disclose your medical records to someone who knows your date of birth. Or the pharmacy that only lets someone pick up my prescription if they know my address. Surely no hacker can determine my SSN, date of birth, home address, or first pet’s name. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Email address For those of you who think your email accounts or other website logins are fine and have never been hacked, I'd encourage you to check here: https://haveibeenpwned.com Once upon a time, with a different breed of hacker, emails and websites could be compromised for months or years before the breach was ever used. Even then the information used was on such small scale to only be noticed by an individual. The breaches we have now are child's play in their execution. On Jan 11, 2017 11:06 AM, "George Skorup" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: We followed the trend and gave everyone 6 months to move out. Dumped all customer accounts on the 1st. I think we've had 3-5 people throw a fit. It just wasn't worth it anymore. ~80% of the accounts were abandoned and at quota. Accounts constantly broken into and used to send junk. And now that headache is gone. On 1/11/2017 8:21 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I probably can't send you email then. I've given up on Yahoo blocking mail from my server. Nobody else, just Yahoo. I don't think anyone is processing the unblocking requests anymore, and sacrifices to the SPF, DKIM and DMARC gods don't seem to help. Oh, well, I've just lumped Yahoo in with AOL, the emails can't be very important. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 1:33 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Email address All the leaks reported were at least 2 years ago. I've since changed my passwords, and I don't put important stuff in email without precautions anyway. I always advise people that email is not secure. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 1/10/2017 10:07 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: I'm guessing yours was involved in the recent leak? :) On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: My personal email has been on yahoo since 1994. Kind of amazing to me. Don't give me any snide remarks about yahoo. It's actually worked pretty well; I even have emails going back that far. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 1/10/2017 4:48 PM, Travis Johnson wrote: Hi, I just realized today that I have had the same email address for 18.5 years. I'm on every spam and mailing list ever created. LOL Travis
