Wednesday 29 June 2016

Zuckerberg Twitter Hack Could Have Been Avoided With Better Passwords

Passwords are very valuable thus it should be strong, complex and hard to guess. The news of hacked twitter account of Mark Zuckerberg has spread like fire. It can be a important reminder that hackers are just a point away from accessing your social media accounts. Most of the people create passwords that are not only easy to crack but can even be guessed at once.

What’s the Importance of Changing Your Password?

Many people create a password while signing up for a service and after that they don’t even change that password ever. This is one of their biggest mistake and the common reason why there account gets compromised. 

Well Mark is not the only one who’s social media account got hacked. There are many ot3ehr celebs who’s social networking account got hacked and being misused. If you want to take the place those hacked victim then its well and good but if you want to protect your privacy and care for personal information than change your password after every 60 days. Don’t be a fool by keeping a simple and easy to guess password. As per the survey it has been found that there are half of people who rarely change their password or never change it.  

Survey Report
  • USA 51.2%
  • UK 58.6%
  • Brazil 54.9%
  • Argentina 55.4%
  • Mexico 48.5%
  • Germany 42.2%
  • India 43.9%
  • Spain 59.4%
  • France 62.7%
  • Russia 49.6%
  • Czech Repulic 54.3%

Change your passwords Now

If Mark’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked via LinkedIn credentials from 2012, than it means he didn’t changed his password for years, this even indicates that he is been using the same password for different account. 



If you are too habituated of using same password for your different accounts then strop because once your Gmail account get hack then it means hackers could easily access all of your account having same password. Not only this they can even change the password of other account so that you won’t be able to access it. 

Passwords are just like key which safeguard your personal and confidential data so beware use a strong, complex and hard to guess password to protect your online account. 

Remember to select a password that has more than 8 characters, include uppercase and lowercase letters, special symbols and numbers. Topmost always change your password after every 60 days.  No one is completely protected from black cyber world but yes you can prevent the hacker from coming in your contact.

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