Comment on My IP address is apparantly suspicious? What? (Real IP, not a VPN)

• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I did have my debit card details stolen a few years ago. The first I knew about it was a text message from my bank telling me they’ve frozen my account and I need to call the phone number printed on the back of my card ASAP. Spoke to a chap in the fraud department, we went through a list of recent transactions, flagged two charity donations I didn’t recognise (apparently that’s a common way for fraudsters to figure out whether your card is valid), and the bank gave me a new account, new card, new everything.

  (incidentally, your bank never needs you to move your money to a “safe” account, they already have your money, they do that for you)

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• nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Damn if that’s the case, my paranoia is gonna go overdrive.

  You can check on haveibeenpwned.com

  Btw, has anyone here actually got hacked? I feel like the media always overexaggerates “hacking” and its mostly people just using weak passwords (user error), not really hacking.

  It’s more likely to be that they found out your login credentials, yes.

  They might find a site with crappy security where they can try many usernames and passwords without getting blocked or they might actually hack the site and get the password list.

  Having a strong password, not reusing passwords and enabling MFA goes a long way towards protecting against those scenarios.

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• suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Btw, has anyone here actually got hacked?

  Lots of people have, usually it’s because they downloaded a cracked application that trojan-horsed a virus onto their system, or they installed a bad browser extension. Once on the system, the malware goes nuts spreading to other systems on their network, using keyloggers to grab passwords, etc.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yea I have a steamdeck for the umm… sailing the high seas, but I definitely don’t and will never, do banking on there.

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• voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  weak passwords (user error) not really hacking

  If you need to cross a chasm, and someone rolls a boulder in that lets you get across, are you going to go into all the ways that it wasn’t really a bridge?

  Hacking is about making stuff do things outside is intended purpose. There are no prescriptions on how; hacking doesn’t gatekeep. If it works, it’s a hack. Convincing sometime to open the door for you is social engineering, for example.

  So, if someone uses/reuses weak passwords, it’s fair to say that’s an easy hack, but it’s still a hack.

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• Thaurin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ticketmaster database with credit card information got hacked years ago. I got an email confirming it and got a credit card transaction for about 1000 euros. Got a bit to explain and convince the credit card company, but they reversed it and blocked the card.

  As for your case, just use very strong and unique passwords in a password manager like KeePass and you’ll be fine. It won’t hurt to rotate your password now, though.

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