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<\/a><\/p>\nSo let\u2019s unpick this
\nFirstly, our customer\u2019s IT system hasn\u2019t been compromised. They can rest easy. But clearly there has been something untoward.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s happened is that this person has been using a web system somewhere on the internet, and they have created an account on that with their work email address. It could be any site at all, from a travel site, to an online auction site, a property site, a video or music streaming service, a courier tracking system \u2013 literally anything. It\u2019s one of these sites that\u2019s been hacked.
\nWe read about these various sites being hacked and a certain number of passwords \u2018stolen\u2019 \u2013 just recently there was a huge hack on Facebook \u2013 that\u2019s especially a worry if you also use your Facebook credentials to log into other systems.<\/p>\n
In many cases, we tend to use the same or similar passwords for the multitude of sites we access. That\u2019s certainly the case in the example above. The hacker knows their email address has been used as an account name, and they\u2019ve stolen the password. So now they can try that account name and password (and password variations) on a bunch of other common sites as well.<\/p>\n
So, how can we help? In this case, not a lot, other than keep educating and reminding people of good practice. But security is a big deal and that\u2019s why we have a security add-on to our KARE agreements<\/a><\/p>\n But right now, check if your credentials have been stolen from website yourself, just go to\u00a0https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/<\/a>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s nothing like receiving an email like the one below to scare the hell out of you! One of our clients received this beauty last month. As you can imagine, they were horrified. We\u2019re pretty confident that, despite the accusation, that they hadn\u2019t in fact visited any porn sites. Nevertheless, it made them understandably uncomfortable. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"There\u2019s nothing like receiving an email like the one below to scare the hell out of you! One of our clients received this beauty last month. As you can imagine, they were horrified. We\u2019re pretty confident that, despite the accusation, that they hadn\u2019t in fact visited any porn sites. Nevertheless, it made them understandably uncomfortable.\n\n<\/a>\n\nSo let\u2019s unpick this\nFirstly, our customer\u2019s IT system hasn\u2019t been compromised. They can rest easy. But clearly there has been something untoward.\n\nWhat\u2019s happened is that this person has been using a web system somewhere on the internet, and they have created an account on that with their work email address. It could be any site at all, from a travel site, to an online auction site, a property site, a video or music streaming service, a courier tracking system \u2013 literally anything. It\u2019s one of these sites that\u2019s been hacked.\nWe read about these various sites being hacked and a certain number of passwords \u2018stolen\u2019 \u2013 just recently there was a huge hack on Facebook \u2013 that\u2019s especially a worry if you also use your Facebook credentials to log into other systems.\n\nIn many cases, we tend to use the same or similar passwords for the multitude of sites we access. That\u2019s certainly the case in the example above. The hacker knows their email address has been used as an account name, and they\u2019ve stolen the password. So now they can try that account name and password (and password variations) on a bunch of other common sites as well.\n\nSo, how can we help? In this case, not a lot, other than keep educating and reminding people of good practice. But security is a big deal and that\u2019s why we have a security add-on to our KARE agreements<\/a>\n\nBut right now, check if your credentials have been stolen from website yourself, just go to\u00a0https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/<\/a>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}