So my IG place was hacked and I lost 1000s of followers and also many people that I had been following for a long time. All the music I had posted over the past 6-7 years is just gone.
Any of you guys have the same experience? I’ve sent over 100 messages and haven’t received one reply from IG. I’m really not surprised as they probably have better things to worry about.
This is my account hopefully I’ll get some of you IG friends back.
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That really sucks. I had a friend get hacked by some bitcoin investment scam person and it took him over a month to get his account back. Good luck and hope everything works out for you.
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I rarely use my twitter, and today I log in to find I’ve followed close to 1000 crypto/nft/‘metaverse’ accounts. Somewhat relieving to hear this is just a common area for spam/scams.
Not being involved in that world and suddenly seeing 1000 different faces of it… shudder
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Let me guess… no password generator used for your password / you use your passwords on multiple sites?
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Sucks OP. I’m sorry.
I lost control of my Gmail account because I moved and as they didnt recognize the new IP address and someone changed the security questions my password wasnt enough. And there is nothing I can do about: no contact email or number to Google whatsoever. They punish you for not giving up your phone number for added security. I swear to God if I am ever in Dublin imma raise hell.
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Probably - I don’t even know my twitter password. We all know this happens.
It’s weird to me that is the extent of what they did. Wonder why they wouldn’t have had my account post / repost all the same nonsense.
Same happened to me on YouTube, albeit with far fewer followers than you mention… it still lost all my contacts, all the channels I followed and all of the content I had posted.
No help at all from YouTube as ‘my account did not have enough followers to get that level of support’. Effectively the whole thing was lost. Was not happy.
so many bro monkeys. so many ugly pixel art procedurally generated scams.
and yes, don’t re-use your passwords folks.
You don’t have to change it every few months, but ABSOLUTELY never use the same password for multiple things.
Check out keepass.
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Macpass is MacOS version of it.
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Latest version of iOS and MacOS have hide my email and pretty robust privacy features. I no longer use a 3rd party app to track passwords as it’s part of Safari now. If you really want to get alarmed at how data is being sent to 3rd parties, check out the iOS App Privacy Report. I immediately deleted the facebook, instagram and a number of other apps.
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The false sense of security that Apple users have still baffles me.
If you store your passwords in the browser, you might as well save them in clear text on your desktop.
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could you explain why…? The Keychain stored in the cloud … I can see that this is not a good idea but very convenient for sure. Though I guess the security issue is more with secret services that push apple to give them access.
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My website is blocked. Has been for 3 years. I gave up.
Sadly 1Password went bonkers with their subscription model. I still have an old license … but the company just grew too fast too big and now want too much money. So … can’t recommend that service to anyone anymore sadly.
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Because getting the list of passwords stored in a browser is a piece of cake. No matter what browser.
How? It’s stored in a keychain which is encrypted. But if you can give me a step by step tutorial how to gain access without my Fingerprint / masterpassword you have convinced me 
(not that my fingerprint was safe … but it’s a lot of effort - somebody has to put in a lot of work…)
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The passwords are not stored in the browser.
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just realized I hadn’t activated that yet! Thx for the reminder!
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Safari integrates with keychain so that’s fairly solid if kept up to date. Chrome has dropped keychain support on OSX & I think Firefox always used their own local storage encryption. Of course, anyone with actual local/remote access to your machine has a good place to start stealing passwords if motivated.
No proprietary software is to be considered secure. It’s as simple as that.