Digital Smarts - Time To Delete Those Ancient Online Accounts
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Recently, as many as 360 million MySpace accounts were offered for sale in a 33-gigabyte online dump. The massive leak included passwords, email addresses and usernames that were swiped from MySpace in a hack with information dating back to June 2013. No big deal, right? Who uses MySpace anymore? Well there actually are some people who do, but more importantly are the passwords that were stolen. If you are one of those people who use the same password for everything, your exposure to hackers may have just skyrocketed if you were ever a MySpace user. The lesson here is it’s time to go back and undo any of those old accounts and disassociate them from online services that you use in the present-day to make sure none of your other internet identities are put at risk.