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Old 04-26-2011, 12:41 AM  
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Originally Posted by taken300 View Post
Basically people use "keyloggers" to hack accounts... You need to change your password every after 1 month and use a long and alfanumeric password... I had a chat with a guy who was selling 1000's of gmail and yahoo hacked account password and 100% original. Always give a check to .exe files when you download via internet.
Since it also happened to Mac user and since it seems like many webmasters are affected I don't think it's a keylogger issue. It seems more like some sponsor's user database has been hacked and these users had the same password for their gmail account as they had at that sponsor.
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