Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen

Re:Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen by mafro on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @10:06PM (#6852432)

Another lesson people need to learn is to keep their security information up to date! Google (and others) periodically prompt you to do this. I suppose it gets treated much like regularly changing your password though..

Saying that, I'm sorry to hear you got locked out! How inconvenient.

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Re:Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen by Guest9821 on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @11:00PM (#6852611)

I have my passwords secure, and use Keepass. The database is backed up on my Truecrypt external drives, in case my laptop is stolen, and I lose the database file.

I figure my job is to protect my username and password, so that's exactly what I do, secure them, and have backups. What I don't expect is getting locked out of my account when I have the valid username and password to login. Also, Google provides zero support. I generate them at least $20k a year in profits off advertising, and I lose my Gmail account for no reason. Anyway, I'm done with them, and switching to alternatives.

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Re:Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen by xycombinator on Friday December 06, 2013 @01:46PM (#6862775)

I keep all security questions and answers in Keepass. If you had done that would you have been locked out?

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