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Is your password secure?

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Jun 15, 2012.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Remove all ads!
    [​IMG] Lately we've been discovering a number of older, more or less inactive accounts, which appear to have been compromised by spammers. The posts made by the original users were left intact, but the spammers manually added various spam signatures to individual posts.

    I believe that these accounts have been compromised due to weak passwords, or due to people using the same logins on other sites, which have been compromised in the past.

    For your own security, I recommend that your BoM password is unique and impossible to guess. If you know that it currently is not, or you are unsure if it is, please go to the Edit Email & Password section of your User CP and enter a valid e-mail (where you can always automatically retrieve your login to) and a new password.

    Better safe than sorry!
     
    Taluntain, Jun 15, 2012
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  2. Montresor

    Montresor Mostly Harmless Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    You can check how secure your password is here, and Microsoft has a bit of advice on how to create passwords here.
     
    Montresor, Jun 15, 2012
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  3. Master of Nuhn

    Master of Nuhn Wear it like a crown Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Oh! I'm pretty darn sure my password is unique and impossible to guess! If not, send me a pm to prove me I'm wrong.
     
    Master of Nuhn, Jun 16, 2012
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    I take weird parts of my novel working titles and add numbers. Each one is different, but easy to remember.
     
    Vorona, Jun 16, 2012
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  5. Gaear

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    @Monty - that's a pretty novel way of collecting passwords. ;)
     
    Gaear, Jun 16, 2012
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