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Dumb question dept.: I changed my password, but I was wondering were I to change my email addy to one using Yahoo, would it work? I originally used the ISP provided mailbox because I couldn't join with Yahoo.

Bob
 
If you tried to log in also and gave them your user name and password there are some other changes you need to make.

If you use the SOH password anywhere else change that as well. Never use the password at this or anyother site as the password for you bank account or email account. They know this is what people do so thats what they are after.

If your email registered with SOH matches the email address you have with your bank (assuming you are doing online banking) change the email address you have registered with your bank to something else. This includes paypal. How many users here have the paypal email address the same as the SOH email address? Of those people somebody is using the same password for both.


Here are some does and don'ts for security reasons.
  • Forums, Social networking sites, and non financial sites get a unique email address it can be common for the group.
  • Online banking, sites where you pay your bills get a seperate unique email address. It also can be common.
  • Passwords for forums, social networking or other non financial sites can have a common password
  • Passwords for all banking activities and bill payments must be complexed and unique. Never make them the same. Not even from one banking insitution to another.
The definition of a complex password
  • Lower case letters
  • Upper case letters
  • numbers
  • special characters (some sites do not allow special characters or limit which ones you can use)
My suggestion is make all of your banking and bill pay passwords as complexed as possible.

Never make them related to anything about you. example don't use birthdays, Wedding dates or anything else that relates directly to you or your family. ie names
 
hubbabubba said:
Yeah Ickie... thanks for the head-up!

But, like a moron, I typed-in my password, thinking it was some glitch due to SOH's overhaul...

I'm not getting younger, and getting used to a new password (which I changed per your instructions) won't be easy.

Iran you say? If the hacker is caught - assuming that he's not working for Mahmoud junta - I hope that hand-cutting is still in fashion over there.
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Hell with the hands. Let's cut off the thing his hands play with. I had to change my password too.
 
This puzzles me a little...
So they get a lot of login/passwords for SOH, then what?
I had assumed they might be after email addresses (but which Ickie says was safe)

Iran, eh?
Ralph posts this thread , and within the hour there's a hack.
I do not believe in co-incidence, someone is watching us...
 
Wing_Z said:
This puzzles me a little...
So they get a lot of login/passwords for SOH, then what?
I had assumed they might be after email addresses (but which Ickie says was safe)

Iran, eh?
Ralph posts this thread , and within the hour there's a hack.
I do not believe in co-incidence, someone is watching us...
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Now don't you think that is a tad paranoïd? That thread was about a flight to different countries, including a few muslim countries... And yes, the redirect was done towards some IP address in Iran, but come on!

Let the admins sort it out, no sense in that sort of thing really.
 
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