People should change their password on any other site where they use it, she added.
Users should also change their password for any site that used the same one that may have been breached on LinkedIn.
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Compromised users should be sure to also change the password of any accounts on other services where they used the same login credentials.
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Baier gets access to change her password and deactivate the account.
On the other hand, affected users should be sure to change the password of any other online accounts that share a password with their Playstation Network account.
From there, I can change my password and they recommend that I have 8-20 characters, with a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters.
With the database table of passwords widely available, it should be noted that most of the passwords will be broken eventually however, and so every user who has used a Gawker Media web site should change their password once Gawker is sure their systems are clean of any shells left behind by the attackers.
Obviously, I now need to remember every crappy Internet service I signed up for over the last decade with the same password as my PlayStation one and change them.
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Those include vulnerability to denial of service attacks, which overload servers with thousands of simultaneous requests for data, as well as basic hacking tactics like guessing the password of users who fail to change default settings.
Yesterday it emerged that Last Pass, a service that syncs with browsers to let you control a variety of passwords with one master password, had asked its users to change their master passwords after discovering a potential breach to its database.
Password manager Last Pass has asked its users to change their master passwords after discovering a potential breach to its database.
However there were a number of things I could have done to prevent the hassle of changing every password on every application and having to cancel or change a number of things as a result.
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Reporting on the hack, technology website techcrunch.com recommended that Twitter users who have the same password for other websites like Facebook or their email should change them.
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