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Are my account data safe?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The most people don’t worry about IT Security. They hear in the news about stolen account data but assume this will never affect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was young and stupid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Christmas 20… whatever I got a free license for a security suite. Everything was great. The German developer had a good reputation and the download and everything was safe. One year later I got an email that my account data probably got stolen. Whaaaat? Yes the IT Sec. developer got hacked. I never expected that and yep I used the same password for my email account as for the registration of the security suite. I blindly trusted them and thought there is no point to create a new password in my password safe. After my email address was used for spam, luckily the email provider blocked it, I finally got a safe password for the account and… deleted the account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost 12 years after this incident, a classmate told me about the homepage https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/<\/a> to do a security check of my email address(es). I checked them and… damn. Luckily this time I was prepared and nothing happen, but it is still kind of annoying that somebody could steal my registration data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What saved my ass the last time?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is just a short list of things I did and I do now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n