Wednesday, May 17, 2017

More passwords have been exposed 
Recently 560 million passwords were exposed and surfaced online.
MacKeeper security research centre reported that a huge database of stolen passwords has surfaced online. This database is composed of passwords from a variety of sources.
Nowadays "Online safety" seems to be abstract but there are still steps you can take to protect yourself when breaches like this occur.
The surfaced database contains about 560 million passwords. 


Here's how to check if you are compromised
Meet Have I Been Pwned, this tool will help check the surfaced database to see if your email address appears in any database that has been compromised. 


It is quite a simple to use.

Steps 
2. Enter your email address or username
3. Click Pwned? to Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach 



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