Change your email password before you become a victim of a hacker

Since when do you not update your email password? You should go right now to change it. Well, in 2017, Benkow computer researcher, discovered a list of 711 million leaked emails and passwords by a malicious spambot. No, this is not a chain, and we'll tell you why.

First of all, you should know that a spambot is the software in charge of generating spam mails., better known as Spam. These programs have been growing with technological advances. and already use artificial intelligence.

Now, with new developments in technology, has increased cyber attacks, These are increasingly sophisticated. The main victims of hackers, are websites that store information about their users. We by checking on our equipment emails, we found that those with MySpace profiles were listed.

So, if you have ever used your email on platforms such as Playstation, Dailymotion, Yahoo!, Tumblr or Last.FM, you may have been one of the victims.

711 million leaked accounts

Who discovered the malicious spambot was the security researcher known as Benkow. And it was Troy Hunt, security and cybercrime expert, who made it known through its web page haveibeenpwned.com.

Processing the largest list of data ever seen in @haveibeenpwned courtesy of a nasty spambot. I'm in there, you probably are too.

- Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) August 28, 2017

Benkow reported that the data have been collected by a machine known as “Onliner Spambot”.”. Depending on its IP, the computer is located in the Netherlands. Likewise, the researcher explained that his methodology of work was by sending an email, with a small image of one pixel included in the email. In this way, when the recipient opened the email, his data and IP address were sent to the server where the image is hosted.

Due to fake news and chains, many users have not given it any importance  due to this transcendental fact. If you have not yet found out if you are on the list, we recommend that you copy your e-mail address into haveibeenpwned.com. And if you are one of the victims, Change your passwords now!

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