Ukrainian secret service nabs suspected seller of 773 million mail addresses

Last week, the secret service in Ukraine arrested someone suspected of selling 773 mail addresses.The suspect in question used the username "Sanix" online and also sold other stolen data.

You can think of account passwords, pin codes, paypal accounts and so on.This is the largest list of personal data ever leaked.

When you see this you are probably shocked and probably want to protect your account better.We're going to go over exactly how to secure your accounts in this blog post.

Also, the police have created a tool where you can check exactly if your data has been leaked.The tool can be found on the following page: Is my data leaked?

Passwords

When you are hosting for example you will most likely get a random password.It is therefore important that you also use a random password for your email addresses, for example.

Your password should consist of lower and upper case letters, numbers and special characters.If you set this for your password then you are immediately much better protected.

It can also do no harm to say once a month or every 3 months to change your passwords.This will make it harder for malicious users to get into your account.

For a strong password you can use our Random Password generator.

two factor authentication

What is also becoming increasingly popular is the two factor authentication method.You will get an extra confirmation through your phone.
You have to approve this message yourself and then you will be logged into the account in question.This can help make your account much safer because every time you get a push notification on your phone.
If someone from a random location tries to log into your mail account you will also notice this immediately.You can then reject the login request and you should change your password as soon as possible.

Keep everything up to date

It is also important to keep all your software up to date. Often these updates include security updates to keep yourself safe.

If you are using older software such as Outlook 2010 you should update it as soon as possible.Outlook 2010 and Thunderbird are no longer supported by Microsoft and Mozilla.

If you have any questions about this, you can always see if there is a chat employee present.If no one is present you can create a ticket to our helpdesk.