We are bombarded with Twitter user names in any article we read or any major media campaign.
The inconvenience of having to remember multiple user names, each often accompanied by a separate password, is eliminated.
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Almost all public networks allowed data such as user names and passwords to pass through the air unencrypted.
Twitter acknowledged on Feb. 1 that cyber attackers may have stolen user names and passwords of 250, 000 users.
The group claim that the data grabbed contains user names, device names and phone numbers of the users affected.
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But it discovered that the attackers may have stolen user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250, 000 users.
Once installed, it grabbed user names and passwords from banking and brokerage accounts, enabling the alleged thieves to drain the accounts.
There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.
Within 15 minutes, more than 500, 000 user names had been assigned, said Larry Yu, a spokesman for the Palo Alto, California-based company.
Twitter said that user names, encrypted passwords and e-mail addresses for as many as 250, 000 users were potentially grabbed by the hackers.
The group claimed that the data grabbed from the FBI contained user names, device names and phone numbers of the users affected.
He pulled a laptop from his bag and gave it to Bridey, along with a Post-it with two user names scribbled on it.
Foursquare is planning to display full user names on profile pages, explaining in a recent community email that the old policy has become confusing.
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Using their Verizon Online user names and passwords, participating FiOS TV customers will be able to access the online programming at the networks' Web sites.
Once embedded in emails and attachments it grabbed user names and passwords from banking and brokerage accounts, enabling the alleged thieves to drain the accounts.
User names and e-mail addresses for about 250, 000 users were exposed.
It said user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords were accessed.
Mindful of this dynamic, InterviewStreet moved the bulk of its contests to a website called HackerRank, where most entrants log in with pseudonymous user names.
The jury was told Mr Ali registered two accounts on eBay's charity website "half in jest" in September 2006 with the user names "terrorshop" and "shopterror".
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Users register with an email address, and then give the site the user names and passwords for their bank, credit union, credit card and investment accounts.
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Your best bet: Keeping an accessible list of your online user names, passwords and other prompts required to tap accounts you would want your family to see.
The social network said in a blog post Friday afternoon that approximately 250, 000 user accounts were potentially compromised, with attackers gaining access to information including user names and email addresses.
He likes Kirsch and Doll and he knows that there are about 2.5 billion people with Internet access who have to deal with the problems of having multiple user names and passwords.
Web sites are layering on more security to fight the common Web scam known as phishing, in which spammers lure people into logging on to a bogus site and steal their user names and passwords.
This week, reports surfaced online about a phishing scheme by hackers that resulted in the posting of thousands of user names and passwords for Web-based e-mail accounts, including Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts.
At a formal gripe session with eight Ebay executives that weekend, some long-time disciples expressed the feeling they weren't particularly well served, complaining that customer support is inadequate, that Ebay staffers know less about navigating the site than users, that the company is slow to toss out inactive sellers, particularly those who hang on to user names that others would like to have.
He also reminded users that PatientsLikeMe also sells its data in an anonymous form, without attaching user's names to it.
The name Dark Patterns itself (what hacker-types might think of as black-hat user experience) names and helps shine a light on a previously murky area.
Online professional network LinkedIn analyzed more than 100 million user profiles to determine the top names of chief executives around the world.
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