Frank Fusco
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I have had my password cracked on Yahoo. :soapbox: Now, instead of my on-line handle 'Rifleman1776' showing, it is "Cracked by Lickey". As near as I can tell, no other damage has been done. I immediately changed to another password. Since it is (was) the same as I used on Pay Pal, I just changed that also. I had thought my password was pretty safe for two reasons. 1) I figured (obviously incorrectly) that no one would want to bother with someone unimportant. Hey, I ain't Eric Baldwin, ya know. and 2) It was a fairly complex password, eleven characters, five letters and six digits.
It did have one big weakness but, I reasoned, that only someone who knows me very well would have doped it out, like my son, daughter or wife and a couple other people very close to me. It was the first name of my deceased son and his date of death. And the new password is.....
It did have one big weakness but, I reasoned, that only someone who knows me very well would have doped it out, like my son, daughter or wife and a couple other people very close to me. It was the first name of my deceased son and his date of death. And the new password is.....