You have been the victim of a major trust breach and you may not know it.
To how many of the following do you subscribe? If you are reading this, you certainly have an account with at least one of these services! Were you notified about the attacks that stole both your email address AND your password?
- Adobe: 153 million accounts
- Bitly: 9.3 million accounts
- Disqus: 17.5 million accounts
- Forbes: 1 million accounts
- LinkedIn: 164 million accounts
- Dropbox: 68 million accounts
- Ancestry: 297,806
You can view the full list here. In total and as of this moment, 517,238,891 passwords have been exposed to data breaches.
Source: www.haveIbeenpwned.com
I was not aware of the magnitude of this problem until yesterday’s most recent “spoof” appeared in my inbox demanding a bitcoin ransom. I’ve received a few in the past, (after the first one it becomes less scary!) but this was different. Not only was it sent from my OWN email address, but it contained an old password that I had used to register for some of the services shown above.
Before you freak out about the next ransomware demand coming to your inbox, check this website to see if you’ve been “had.” Chances are you have, and it’s time to stop using the same old passwords.
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Barbara Brooks Kimmel is an award-winning communications executive and the CEO and Cofounder of Trust Across America-Trust Around the World whose mission is to help organizations build trust. A former consultant to McKinsey and many Fortune 500 CEOs and their firms, Barbara also runs the world’s largest global Trust Alliance, and is the editor of the award-winning TRUST INC. book series and TRUST! Magazine. In 2012 she was named one of “25 Women who are Changing the World” by Good Business International, and in 2017 she became a Fellow of the Governance & Accountability Institute. Barbara holds a BA in International Affairs and an MBA. Don’t forget to TAP into Trust!
For more information contact barbara@trustacrossamerica.com
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