OK so I’ve become very lazy — security wise.
My Frau version 2 recently got “hacked”. Not exactly sure what or how it happened BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), she was getting text code to confirm a password change on a financial account’s website. She attributed to yet another credit card being “stolen”. Not sure if I agree with that. Given that she uses a childhood nickname as her User Id, then I suspect maybe the financial institution or one of its many contractors or data handlers has had a leak.
Anyway, I’ve begun changing all my User Ids from something easily know or guessable to some random string generate by my password manager. For example, instead of “myname@myemailprovider.com”, I’m now know as “Unthread1-Batch7”.
Belt and suspenders? Maybe. But who can tell!
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