My TradingView Account Got Hacked!

schizo said:
The thing is that I received this weird ransom email not too long ago. The sender sent using my own email address and he threatened me that he knew my password and that unless I pay him money in bitcoin he would do blah, blah, blah. The password he mentioned was apparently one of the leaked passwords. Of course, it's not anything important, so I simply ignored it. But this tells me that Google ain't simply bullshitting when they say my passwords are compromised.
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Did you recognize the password that he mentioned?
 
schizo said:
Lately, I've been using Chrome to generate random passwords for me. For instance, here's one it just generated for me: t&bq34hVafTdHh5

What say you to that? Is it too short or is it not complicated enough in your opinion?


I've looked at the link you've provided above. That seems to be above my pay grade and, frankly, I ain't sure if I would be able to keep track of all the passwords that I generate. I'm sucha clumsy slob.
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I read it somewhere that the trick to create a strong password that will contain all the requirements, the upper case, lower case, special characters and etc. is to create it in a long phrase that you can easily remember all in one word so that way it's both secure and easy to remember for you. Those randomly generated passwords is no good imo cuz they are so hard to remember and it's going to be a pain to type them each time.
 
TheDawn said:
I read it somewhere that the trick to create a strong password that will contain all the requirements, the upper case, lower case, special characters and etc. is to create it in a long phrase that you can easily remember all in one word so that way it's both secure and easy to remember for you. Those randomly generated passwords is no good imo cuz they are so hard to remember and it's going to be a pain to type them each time.
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Not really. It's never a good idea to reuse passwords because no matter how good it is, if it's in one dump, it's all open. I use one long one for only secure offline stuff and for online a combination of a password with some additional dynamic characters so it never repeats.
 
schizo said:
Lately, I've been using Chrome to generate random passwords for me. For instance, here's one it just generated for me: t&bq34hVafTdHh5

What say you to that? Is it too short or is it not complicated enough in your opinion?
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Yes, that's a good password. Longer would be better. And if you aren't doing so already, using a password generator like that for user ids and answers to secret questions will also keep accounts more secure.
 
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Why are you not using 2FA on your account?
I have configured it to be more secure for all of my accounts, even sometimes I am unable to access myself :))
 
ph1l said:
And if you aren't doing so already, using a password generator like that for user ids and answers to secret questions will also keep accounts more secure.
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I didn't know generators could also spit out usernames and secret questions. Do you know of any good ones? Also another problem these days is that most sites require your email address as username.
 
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