[Guide] Lessons that every beginners should learn from recent account hack
SUB: [Guide] Lessons that every beginners should learn from recent account hack
When I come across this topic in meta, I am little surprised on learning how people get busy on real life and then forgetting about the basics on securing their bitcointalk account. Beginners may not be enough skilled to secure their account and even legendary members as well might miss like this incident hence decided to list few check points to make sure the security of our bitcointalk account.
In above incident, account holder lost their email due to expiry of it and then hacker created the same email and then easily got access to bitcointalk account.
It means, getting access to our email is very much similar to hacking password. So, we must not show what is our email.
Tip #1
Make sure that your mail is HIDDEN to anyone by ticking this checkbox:
Profile-> Account Related Settings-> Hide email address from public?
Tip #2
Make sure your email is active (and secured in terms of strong password and recovery options).
In recent times, (for example) google announced about deactivating inactive emails. So, it would be always a good practice to frequently keep checking all our email accounts including the one linked to our bitcointalk account.
And always use an alphanumeric password with at least 8 character length with symbols and capital letters. Because such password can be hacked only by 10+ years of brutal force.
Tip #3
Enable two-factor authentication in your bitcointalk account.
(I am mentioning this because it is relatively a new feature to our accounts and with this reason, not everyone is aware of availability of this security measurement).
Profile-> Account Related Settings->Two-factor authentication status:
I am sure that in above hack incident, if that user followed at least any one of these basics, might have prevented the hack.
Also, I like to know if I am missing any other tip to secure my account. I am always open to learn. Thank you all!
When I come across this topic in meta, I am little surprised on learning how people get busy on real life and then forgetting about the basics on securing their bitcointalk account. Beginners may not be enough skilled to secure their account and even legendary members as well might miss like this incident hence decided to list few check points to make sure the security of our bitcointalk account.
In above incident, account holder lost their email due to expiry of it and then hacker created the same email and then easily got access to bitcointalk account.
It means, getting access to our email is very much similar to hacking password. So, we must not show what is our email.
Tip #1
Make sure that your mail is HIDDEN to anyone by ticking this checkbox:
Profile-> Account Related Settings-> Hide email address from public?
Tip #2
Make sure your email is active (and secured in terms of strong password and recovery options).
In recent times, (for example) google announced about deactivating inactive emails. So, it would be always a good practice to frequently keep checking all our email accounts including the one linked to our bitcointalk account.
And always use an alphanumeric password with at least 8 character length with symbols and capital letters. Because such password can be hacked only by 10+ years of brutal force.
Tip #3
Enable two-factor authentication in your bitcointalk account.
(I am mentioning this because it is relatively a new feature to our accounts and with this reason, not everyone is aware of availability of this security measurement).
Profile-> Account Related Settings->Two-factor authentication status:
I am sure that in above hack incident, if that user followed at least any one of these basics, might have prevented the hack.
Also, I like to know if I am missing any other tip to secure my account. I am always open to learn. Thank you all!