Have you ever had your password hacked?

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I know that what's his name from the sword forums hacked people's passwords on the FFF.  And this article asys 50 million have been hacked.

Have you ever had yours hacked?   I did. Someone got into my email.  No harm done.  However, when the huge VISA hack was done, they got my VISA.  When they charged $5000 in a hotel in Massachussets, my bank called me at 3am and called again after I let it go to voice mail until I answered. They wanted to verify if I was in MA.  They denied the charges.

Evernote hacked: 50 million passwords reset
LONDON (AP) -- Online note-taking service Evernote Corp. says it has been hacked and is resetting all its 50 million users' passwords as a precaution.

The Redwood City, California-based company said in a post published late Saturday that an attacker had been able to access sensitive customer information and that every user would have their account reset "in an abundance of caution."

Evernote says the attacker was able to access an unspecified number of customers' encrypted passwords. Decoding such passwords can be difficult but is far from impossible.

The company says it has seen no evidence that any customer data had been tampered with or that any payment information had been compromised.

A phone message left with Evernote on Sunday was not immediately returned.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EVERNOTE_HACKING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-03-07-30-21
 
He really did not hack, more than he used deception to get the passwords. He placed a link in one of his messages (under the guise of an article or something) and when you clicked on it, it would take you no a log in page that looked just like the fff login page. One would then enter their username and password and he would store it in a database.

I fell for it, and made me reevaluate passwords, phishing, etc.
 
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