As you may know, there have recently been many large breaches of major sites, including LinkedIn, tumblr, Snapchat, MySpace and others. These breaches have involved the compromise of user account credentials.
To see a list of recently breached websites, please visit: https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites To check if you have an account that has been compromised, please visit: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Additionally, to see a graphic of the biggest data breaches (you may filter by industry, and view by method of leak), please visit: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/
We offer the following recommendations:
- Remain attentive to news reports of breaches, as there are often delays between the actual breach and the notification to users/account-holders.
- If you believe or discover that an account has been breached, change your password asap.
- Use unique passwords for each individual account. A general “rule of thumb” is that longer passwords (15+ characters) are stronger passwords. We further recommend that you use a Password Manager (such as Keeper, LastPass . . . etc.) to manage your passwords.
- Do not reuse passwords.