Posted on 10/07/2024 7:35:13 AM PDT by ducttape45
Hello all. Just wanted to pass on word so ya'all will have a head's up.
I was notified by son in FL that all his online credentials was hacked. He didn't go into specifics (I'm sure that will be forthcoming) but he had to migrate to a new email address and his financial logon credentials had to be changed as well. I was also informed by my ex-wife that her Google Play was hacked as well.
I hear this kind of stuff is on the rise, so I implore all my fellow Freepers to be on their guard. I never store any financial info on my phone or computer, and I never use Google Play either. I have only one bank app on my phone and I rarely use it. I also keep all sensitive info off my home network. I keep it all on external drives and I get it out only when I need it.
So please, I implore everyone, take extra precautions. It seems these days this kind of stuff is happening more and more and I would hate to hear of any of you having the same experience.
Some years back I got Lifelock. I’d never had any problem with my single Visa card but I figured better safe than sorry. My very next Visa statement showed a charge of 35,000 Thai baht — an obviously fraudulent purchase made in Southeast Asia. Lifelock never even attempted to notify me of the suspicious charge. They’re useless . . . or perhaps worse than useless now that they’ve been hacked.
A windows 10 using chrome showed up on the CPI list of devices somehow over the weekend.
No 10 devices in use.
I generated a new pass phrase and forced logout of everything.
See if it comes back and if it does, get CPI to look at it.
No unexplained devices on the router.
I wonder how many of our Putin propagandists here are hacked accounts.
Everyone without their knowledge.
Do you go to websites other than the FR? Then you are using Google. In fact, I will bet your bank even utilizes Google webservices in the name of “security” and “analytics”. 99.99% of all websites in the world use Google webservices. It has been brainwashed into them as a standard that they cannot build a website without Google 3rd party webservices.
And with Google comes all the very serious spyware they utilize in real time to gather data from everything you do on your machine and online. Once you hit a site with Google they are now looking over your shoulder until you go clear your cache. Some scripts depending on source permanently implant in your box and upload data to Google continuously.
This is real, and Google is owned by BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. Google is connected to BlackRock’s infamous “Alladin” mainframe. As is most of the world’s internet infrastructure.
A good move - even before any hacking - is to freeze your credit reports. That will stop hackers from doing a ton of things with your information.
https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/credit-education/preventing-fraud/security-freeze/
It doesn’t matter anymore. Google is collecting full credentials no matter what they are.
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Who uses google???
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Android.
Chrome.
“I know a techie type who says phones are safer than computers for banking, etc.”
If you use a cellular connection. When I am traveling I turn wifi off when doing any sensitive activities.
Use different email addresses. For example, I have one email address that I use for FR and other forums; etc. I have another email address for moderate money stuff (I.e. bills, utilities, online orders). And I have one that I use for a very few financial institutions (bank, Roth IRA, 401k). That way if my online forum is not email address is hacked, it can’t e used to get into my Roth IRA.
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That’s VERY GOOD advice.
It’s something that I do but forgot to mention.
It’s secure compartmentalization.
I have multiple email addresses.
I have one that I use mostly for fun. It’s the one that I expect to get spam, because I sign up for anything Un-serious with, such as gaming accounts, or shopping site logins. Etc.
I have a work email that I don’t use for personal communication or personal business, and I get surprisingly very little spam there because of that.
I have an email that I use for my social media exposure, which these days is almost zero. I personally loathe social media.
And I have an email for my important logins (financial etc). Don’t use it for anything else.
That sort of seperation accomplishes several things.
The reason related to this topic is that my important and work emails have a lot less exposure to the mischievious types.
Second reason is that it makes it more difficult for the personal data aggregators out there (Meta, Google, Microsoft, etc) to aggregate a full profile on you. Although this isn’t as true as it used to be, because they’ve gotten a lot better at spying than they used to be. Just having separate emails isn’t enough. For example, if you access everything from home, your IP address or geolocation gets tied to it all through your ISP. Also, if you access all your different accounts from one device, like having banking apps on your smart phone for example, your cellular ISP can tied all your ‘identities’ together.
“He’s not a techie.”
Why do you think that
My recommendation; make all of your passwords ridiculously complex.
Use uppercase, lowercase, numbers and at least one non-letter character.
Make it long.
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Technique I use.
Have a file with my passwords on my machine (which I need to clean out).
The passwords are memory ticklers, or reminders. The words in the file don’t work.
Example “tr+greg” would be Teddy_Roosevelt+1752”. 1752 is the year Britain and colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar.
Just throwing this out for consideration.
Oh no... It is not limited to just Google devices. It is in everything online everywhere.
Just in the past 2 months: someone tried to open a Chase credit card in my name (blocked, as I have credit-freeze in place); stole my son-in-laws credit-card info and used it for pizza and 2 plane tix; stole my daughter’s cc info., but got blocked when trying to use it.
Rule 39 ... no such thing as a coincidence.
“He’s not a techie.”
Compared to me he is, but that’s not saying much!
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“A man’s got to understand his limitations”
I got about a half-handle on mine *grin*
“ALL of his online credentials could be hacked only if they were all stored in the same place.”
Unfortunately that is not true anymore. They are being collected AS YOU ENTER THEM.
Unreal
Mostly these things happen when they click on an email that has bad links.
Always, always, always check the sender’s email address. I would guess that 25% of my emails are send from scammers. They tell me that I’ve ordered something, or that I am eligible for a huge refund.
I know where literally every dime I own is. I know the charges on my cards. I look at my bank accounts every day.
I read these bogus emails and see the wrong grammar or syntax…or they simply use phrases/phrasing that is not colloquial American. They read as if they were written by someone with a poor understanding of English—because the are.
Better yet, if they say you owe them money, and you know you don’t…simply delete the email. If they want to contact you, email is not how they do it.
“Me either.....I keep everything on an external hard drive that only gets plugged in when I need it.”
I get in my car and physically DRIVE TO THE BANK. My personal security system is flawless... I do absolutely NO online banking or important business. I do it IN PERSON.
“This is real, and Google is owned by BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. “
Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet, a publicly held company.
“Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet, a publicly held company.”
And you might want to dig further before you assume you know more than others about this. who owns CONTROLNG SHARES in a public held company? “Public” doesn’t mean one thing anymore, it is a label to hide behind. Who owns the controlling interest in those companies?
Who owns Alphabet?
“Ownership
Alphabet is mainly owned by institutional investors, who own over 60% of shares. The founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are each controlling around 3% of all shares, but are controlling with other insiders the majority of voting shares. The largest shareholders in December 2023 were:[41]
>The Vanguard Group (7.25%)
>BlackRock (6.27%)
>State Street Corporation (3.36%)
Sergey Brin (3.0%)[42]
Larry Page (3.0%)[42]
Fidelity Investments (2.07%)
Geode Capital Management (1.76%)
T. Rowe Price (1.73%)
JPMorgan Chase (1.42%)
Capital International Investors (1.42%)
Morgan Stanley (1.30%)
Northern Trust (0.95%)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.
Gator, I have been chasing the NWO and MIC for 45 years and have all the connections. If I make a claim about the NWO or MC it is fact not theory.
Won't help. Complexity only helps against cracking hashes and if someone steals the hashes from a provider it means they also can plant software to steal plaintext passwords or better yet steal the personal info as it comes across
My advice is to use a 6 to 10 letter non-word, jumble of letters. I save mine in a file on the computer. I have some cryptic indication of what each one is for, meaningful to me but not anyone else. My computer won't be "hacked" and even if it was, the file won't be found, and if all of that is true, it will be difficult to use.
The actual problem is not some sophisticated hacker somewhere who could figure all that out. You are not a target. The problem is people fall for scams or fake sites and give away their passwords.
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