That was the critical lesson from this event. Make sure this email has a complex and unique password this is your most important account as most of the other services rely on it. It is most commonly the place you will register your other accounts, and where you will be sent recovery questions, password reset links and 2 Factor authentication messages. Your primary email account is critical to your online identity. Your online identity is more important than ever, take care of it Use password managers to avoid getting lazy again.Your online identity is more important than ever, take care of it.Here is the paste identified a few days after I realised my Spotify account was compromised. And to my surprise, they publish it on Darkweb forums so people can use premium services for a while before the owner of the accounts realised they were compromised. People get the list of emails and password exposed by hacks and try it on all kinds of different popular services. It will show sites that had the list of users published and lets you know if your email, and potentially your password may have been exposed. Have I been Pwned is a simple email search that looks up at known hacked websites and services.

Also, after asking for my wonderful friend Raphael Perez to comment on this article, he recommended, which does a similar search and monitors emails for you. After doing further research and talking to my trusted colleagues, Kay Ubergs recommend that I have a look at. Even though it was easy to type it was a complex password. But the reason why another person got in is that I used to have a password that I shared between unimportant accounts, easy to remember and to type.īut how did they guess my password for Spotify if, as far as I am aware, Spotify was never hacked.

I quickly logged in to the Spotify website and changes the email back to my address and changed the password. The email alert from Spotify was on my spam filter. After a few seconds of exploration, I found that they not only got in, but also tried to change the email. The first step was to identify how far they got into it. THAT WAS WHEN I REALISED THAT MY SPOTIFY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED! You only experience this behaviour on Spotify when you have another person interacting with the same login as you. I decided to change to my usual rock and boom, a few seconds later back to unusual tunes. By clicking play again, the music would resume and eventually stop after a few seconds. Books and music are my usual routine on the London public transport system to void eye contact and ignore the terrible squeeze and uncomfortable position you have to subject yourself to get to work.īut this time I realised that instead of playing the usual System of a Down, 90's Dance music or Iron Maiden, my phone started playing 'Mindfulness' music, and every few second the music would stop. On my way to work late November 2019, I decided to listen to some music.

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