Caution on giving Personal information

Be cautious when writing your personal information/details. Why? Because this information can be used to the HACKING/RECOVERY/COMPROMISING of your MSN/email attached to PayPal. Favorite books, movies, name of pets...Thats what the 13-year-old-hackers need. The Off Topic section is a place they can look at.

 

Great tip. I couldnt agree more. People post this stuff on facebook and dont realize theyre giving away their identity.

 

I thought this stuff was obvious? Maybe not.

 

Pathetic. Even if you knew everything about me, you still couldn't guess my security answers.

 

MSN is ridiculously insecure. A would-be hacker wouldn't need to know your security question. OP is correct, with the kind of information he listed you could hack an MSN.

 

something else is phishing websites, they're tricky...

 

People need to be more cautious and make security questions/answers more unique and need to memorize them as well.

 

I dare anyone to hack me.

 

I'm not saying that I am capable of doing it, I'm just saying you shouldn't rest so easy. Do you think the numerous mods/well known users that have been hacked in the recent past thought they'd be the target of a hacker? Probably not.

MSN in particular is notoriously insecure and just because you make your recovery questions not actually related to the question does not make you 'secure', or 'unhackable'.

 

Im an idiot who had his MSN hacked 2 times, 1 of the times that way...from some1 knowing my favorite book, a mate's msn got hacked from the same hacker just from him knowing the name of his dog. hilarious

 

Obvious but thanks for the info

 

Well known doesn't mean well secured.

Personally, I've never gotten hacked, and I doubt I ever will. Call me arrogant, but that's just the way I feel. Maybe the day I will get hacked is the day I will change my mind.

 

Very good advice. All you trollers should STFU.

 

People hack when they can easilly profit from scamming others BEFORE they get caught, if they can't do that, why should they do it? Soon with your gaining trust on Sythe you might have those problems, mate

 

No one is trolling. It's obvious information, it's not worth posting a thread about.

 

That is why when you fill in information for secret questions / reset information you never use anything that actually is true (not to mention that you can just script your account).

It's not really rocket science...

 

Yeah 13 year old kids will try anything for a couple mil