Two minutes later, an email arrived notifying me that my Google Account password had changed.
In 2011, Apple revised its in-app purchasing policy, requiring users to re-enter their account password before paying for enhancements within games.
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When you click the OK button at the upper right, it will ask for your account and password.
Children receive their own account login and password, allowing them to continue their work from anywhere they can access the Internet.
Its social media team and an outside agency manage the Twitter account, but Thornton declined to say how many people knew the account's password.
Your password, account information, the contents of your email, and any other personal information were never at risk.
At 4:50 PM, someone got into my iCloud account, reset the password and sent the confirmation message about the reset to the trash.
In many cases, account hacking happens when the target has an easy-to-guess password, accesses the account via public Wi-Fi, or forgets to log out after using an account on a publicly shared computer.
Also, it doesn't hurt to check your account balance annually, by phoning an automated or recorded line or logging into a password-protected online account.
Which means someone has got hold of both a username and password of an account holder, and been able to circumnavigate the security that prevents an outsider being able to change such details.
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In some cases clicking on a link logged in to that account without the need for a password.
Baier gets access to change her password and deactivate the account.
When Koobface infects a machine, the malware runs silently and observes a user logging in to his or her Facebook account, capturing the username and password.
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He establishes a connection to his account using a user ID and password known only to him, and the connection is secured using standard encryption technology.
For example, your online banking username and password, checking routing and account number, account history and so on.
While this is no doubt more hassle than just using just the username and password, it dramatically improves account security.
It will even handle regularly scheduled password changes, automatically updating account details.
Chances are we use the same password for our Google Buzz account that we use for the corporate Active Directory login and for Salesforce.com.
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The company recently agreed to an outside security audit after it was revealed that anyone could access a Hotmail account without knowing the user's password.
Enter the username and password that corresponds with your account 6.
On the other hand, affected users should be sure to change the password of any other online accounts that share a password with their Playstation Network account.
As far as we know, nobody's ever been executed for typing the wrong password to their e-mail account.
He experienced a similar scenario after his grandmother died, and he tried to get the password for her e-mail account -- only to give up because of the hassle.
In June, a programming error temporarily allowed any password to be used to access any account.
At 4:52 PM, they sent a Gmail password recovery email to the .mac account.
Here, along with your username and password, you can set your Google account to ask you for a six-digit code that Google will send via text message to your phone.
In 2009, Twitter Inc. had hundreds of pages of confidential plans exposed after a hacker accessed the Gmail account of an employee by resetting the employee's password.
In June, a programming error at Internet-based storage firm Dropbox Inc. temporarily allowed any password to be used to access any user account on its website, though Dropbox says fewer than 100 accounts were affected.
Two-step verification drastically reduces the chances of someone stealing the personal information from your e-mail account because hackers would have to not only get a password and your user name, they would also have to have access to the mobile phone to which the code is sent.
Furthermore, someone can gain access to an e-mail or social network account using sniffing methods, without needing that person's password.
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