773M Emails Hacked

[encycrypto]

Interesting... It seems like password generators have been making a fool out of us all this time!

[Juggy777]

This info has been going around quite some time now but I just wanted to share with anyone who hasn't heard it yet. The article explains how was found out that 773M emails and over 21M passwords were hacked and leaked on what is thought to be the largest email hack ever. https://www.cnet.com/news/massive-breach-leaks-773-million-emails-21-million-passwords/

What does this mean for me?

Like everyone I have my email address linked with several exchanges with several open orders in buy or in sell. That being said if someone was to find my mail address and password would try and enter on those exchanges. I've activated 2FA on every exchange but it doesn't feel good to know that I might be one of those 773M hacked email. My coins are on my hardware wallets but I have some other on exchanges on buy and sell orders. With one email hack I could lose some money. Luckily there is this website  https://haveibeenpwned.com that finds out if your email has been hacked or not. I tried it and fortunately my main account I use on most exchanges is safe.
I suggest everyone to give it a try and if you find out smth that you don't like I suggest you change the email password to start with, and then to change the password on all the exchanges where you have used that email address.

Let's keep our money safe guys  

I remember a similar mail was sent to many people last year, where the hackers had put their passwords too in the mail and demanded ransom. I believe these emails which get hacked happen due to people entering passwords on sites which are not secured, or downloading files containing viruses which steal their data. I like the 2fa option which helps me be relaxed, also i use passwords of 16 digits so let them enjoy cracking it.

[hatshepsut93]

Damn, I start using this strategy for some years now and I even memorized my seed. (it was difficult job to keep the order) together with the Walled address.
Long ago I've reinstall my Windows XP so many times that even memorized the CD key and used it for some time as a password
Used to mess around with IPv6 addresses so I manage to create a technique to memorize those addresses, i guess for the regular people this will difficulty.

Well, Bitcoin seeds are kinda meant to be memorizable, they aren't called "mnemonic" for no reason. Usually when it is mentioned, someone quickly points out that human memory is horrible and you should never rely on it, and they are totally right, but I think it's always good to have one more additional backup method. I too have memorized my seed, actually more than one seed.

But how did you memorize the address? Base58 sounds almost impossible to memorize, you have to remember the case of each letter.