Have I been hacked here?

[RasputinDude]

I've had the same emails several times. I worked out that it came from a very very linkedin account. And I've never used a PC so I found the description of I had been hacked somewhat comical.

[Lance]

I've had the same emails several times. I worked out that it came from a very very linkedin account. And I've never used a PC so I found the description of I had been hacked somewhat comical.

What makes you so sure that you can't be hacked by limiting the type of end device you use?
That's a very false hope that, particularly as the example is password theft from a cloud service (that you use).

[xoggoth]

Not sure I'd use any third party thing to store passwords. Store mine in a an Excel sheet. Apart from the standard safeguards to hide and protect sheets and coding it uses a self-edited encryption algorithm. And I don't call it passwords.xlsm!

PS You can read a standard Excel file by renaming to zip and looking at xml files in the folder. Don't use without encryption!

[RasputinDude]

What makes you so sure that you can't be hacked by limiting the type of end device you use?
That's a very false hope that, particularly as the example is password theft from a cloud service (that you use).

Remote Desktop Connection on debian?

[Lance]

Remote Desktop Connection on debian?

and???????

Not Windows != Secure


https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerabi...23/Debian.html


oh. And since when is Debian not a PC?

[RasputinDude]

Och man, you try to make a slight witticism...

I'm well aware that linux does not necessarily mean secure. And by PC, I meant Windows.

Sheesh

[Lance]

Och man, you try to make a slight witticism...

I'm well aware that linux does not necessarily mean secure. And by PC, I meant Windows.

Sheesh

sorry. I thought you were being serious. Hard to tell sometimes.
Try like this.

[rogerfederer]

A consolidated email and password release was made recently by a hacking group. It wasn't new material but was amalgamated information from the past few years.

LinkedIn was included in this. They were well and truly hacked years ago. This is why your password was likely to be an old LinkedIn one that you used some time ago. You can search this information on your own if you wish, as it's downloadable and also hosted on a website to allow searching of all the content.

[Fred Bloggs]

A consolidated email and password release was made recently by a hacking group. It wasn't new material but was amalgamated information from the past few years.

LinkedIn was included in this. They were well and truly hacked years ago. This is why your password was likely to be an old LinkedIn one that you used some time ago. You can search this information on your own if you wish, as it's downloadable and also hosted on a website to allow searching of all the content.

Thanks. That's exactly what happened to me. I now have much stronger passwords in place and two factor on anything that supports it.

[Slawb]

Are you 100% sure that CUK is the ONLY place you use that password? There are various emails going around at the moment which are using
passwords linked to accounts with your email address that have been leaked. I've had a few myself quoting old passwords.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Pop your email, or any usernames, in here and it'll tell you whether your email/username is part of any breaches where passwords have been posted online.