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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