Check your Google account, do a regular security checkup: your credentials may have been hacked (reminder)

Google's authentication servers were hacked a few months ago, causing a leak of several million Google accounts.

See article Cybernews.com of 02.02.2021

What are these servers for?

  • To authorize or not your access to sites (including Gmail) and those that use this verification system.

 

In short, it greatly simplifies access.

You know this possibility to enter a site (image opposite).




 

It's so convenient to memorize your passwords, and to use the Google sync with your "Google Account", so you can find your favorites, your logins, your passwords, your browsing history (Internet sites), on any PC.

So: Google's servers hacked, the hackers are potentially custodians of everything mentioned in the above paragraph.

This can represent, per user, hundreds of sites and as many ways to be cheated.

Tip:

Check your Google Account regularly to see if you've been notified that any of your credentials have been hacked. If so, go to all the affected sites, delete your accounts if they are not needed, or change your passwords by making them complex.

In practice

Visit us at https://account.google.com  

Section Check-up Passwords

Don't forget, a password is also a passphrase, for example : 

  • "I live at 52!"

Note the presence of the apostrophe and the exclamation mark which easily complicates.

Dual authentication

Some sites offer double authentication. In addition to your password, a random code with a limited lifespan is proposed to you, you must enter it in the site after your password.

This requires the installation of applications like :

  • Microsoft Authenticator 
  • Google Authenticator   

 

Go to the App Store for IOS devices

In the PlayStore for Android

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