{"id":13244,"date":"2018-11-17T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geekine.com\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:31:31","slug":"change-your-email-password-before-you-fall-victim-to-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekine.com\/en\/change-your-email-password-before-you-fall-victim-to-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Change your email password before you become a victim of a hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\"><strong>Since when do you not update your email password?<\/strong> You should go right now to change it. Well, in 2017,<strong> Benkow computer researcher, discovered a list of 711 million leaked emails and passwords<\/strong> by a malicious spambot. No, this is not a chain, and we'll tell you why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-7\">First of all, you should know that <strong>a spambot is the software in charge of generating spam mails.<\/strong>, better known as Spam. These programs have been growing with technological advances.<strong> and already use artificial intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\">Now, with<strong> new developments in technology<\/strong>, has increased <strong>cyber attacks<\/strong>, These are <b>increasingly sophisticated<\/b>. The main <a href=\"https:\/\/geekine.com\/en\/technology\/free-basic-course-on-hacking-and-security-techniques-in-linux\/\"><strong>victims of hackers<\/strong><\/a>, are websites that store information about their users. We<strong> by checking on our equipment<\/strong> emails, we found that<strong> those with MySpace profiles were listed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7412\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7412 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geekine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/qheronet-tu-correo-podria-estar-en-esta-lista-1.jpg\" alt=\"Update your email password before you become a hacker victim\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The data was stolen from online gaming sites to social networking sites | Image: Have i been pwned<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-9\">So, if you have ever used your email on platforms such as Playstation, Dailymotion, Yahoo!, Tumblr or Last.FM,<strong> you may have been one of the victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ai-optimize-10\">711 million leaked accounts<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-11\">Who <strong>discovered the malicious spambot<\/strong> was the security researcher known as<strong> Benkow.<\/strong> And it was<strong> Troy Hunt, security and cybercrime expert,<\/strong> who<strong> made it known through its web page <a data-original-href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/xuo.us\/NKIOn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer external\">haveibeenpwned.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"es\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Processing the largest list of data ever seen in <a data-original-href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/haveibeenpwned?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer external\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/xuo.us\/SGMBP\">@haveibeenpwned<\/a> courtesy of a nasty spambot. I&#039;m in there, you probably are too.<\/p>\n<p>- Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) <a data-original-href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/troyhunt\/status\/902084044220809216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer external\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/xuo.us\/wfMKk\">August 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-12\">Benkow reported that <strong>The data has been collected by a machine known as the \u201cOnliner Spambot\u201d<\/strong>. Depending on its IP, the computer <strong>is located in the Netherlands<\/strong>. Likewise, the researcher explained that his methodology of work was <strong>by sending an email, with a small image of one pixel included in the email.<\/strong> In this way, when the recipient opened the email, his data and IP address were sent to the server where the image is hosted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7416\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7416 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geekine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/qheronet-millones-de-correos-filtrados-1.jpg\" alt=\"Update your email password before you become a hacker victim\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enter your email to haveibeenpwned.com and check if you are on the list, the website will explain what is your case and where you appear in the list: Have i been pwned<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-13\">Due to fake news and chains, <strong>many users have not given it any importance<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 due to this transcendental fact.<\/strong>\u00a0If you have not yet found out if you are on the list, <strong>we recommend that you copy your e-mail address into <a data-original-href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/xuo.us\/NKIOn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer external\">haveibeenpwned.com<\/a><\/strong>. And if you are one of the victims, <strong>Change your passwords now!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-14\">Image: <em><a data-original-href=\"https:\/\/pxhere.com\/en\/photo\/794018\" href=\"https:\/\/xuo.us\/VcFke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer external\">Pxhere<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you updated your email password? You should change it right now. In 2017, computer researcher Benkow discovered a list of 711 million emails and passwords leaked by a malicious spambot. No, this isn&#039;t a chain letter, and we&#039;ll tell you why. First of all, you should know that a spambot is software designed to generate junk emails, better known as spam. These programs have evolved with technological advancements and now use artificial intelligence\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22617,"featured_media":25078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowjZ7eCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[373,337,27,374,29],"tmauthors":[],"ppma_author":[2506],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tecnologia","tag-contrasenas","tag-email","tag-hacker","tag-seguridad","tag-virus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cambia tu contrase\u00f1a de correo electr\u00f3nico antes que seas v\u00edctima de un hacker | Geekine.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00bfDesde cu\u00e1ndo no actualizas la contrase\u00f1a de tu correo? 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