Your strongest passwords are only as good as the website on which they’re used. So, if you’ve used a weak password on one of your online accounts, a hacker will be able to gain access to it without trying multiple times. If you look up “most common passwords” online, you will see that a vast majority of internet folks still use “123456” and “password” as their passwords. What this means is that a hacker doesn’t try to hack one account with a lot of password attempts, but instead try to hack into many accounts with just a few, very commonly used passwords. This is a kind of attack in which a hacker attempts to access a large number of accounts using only a few popular passwords. It can even track your keystrokes and obtain your login information through that sneaky approach.Īs you can see, even in this method, hackers don’t have to actively steal your password their malware does that for them. Malware installed on your device can recover passwords that you have saved on your browser. Malware On Your DeviceĪnother common method of getting a user’s login info is installing malware on their device (laptop, computer, smartphone etc.). The hacker didn’t have to attempt to enter your account with an incorrect password even once you gave them your login credentials on a platter. Your username and password have thus successfully been stolen.Īlso Read: If Websites Don’t Store Your Password On Their Servers, How Are They Able To Tell You The Strength Of Your Password? When you enter your login credentials in the webpage that the email leads you to, they get copied and become visible to a hacker who sent you the fake bank email in the first place. But tell Shutterstock management that this is a useless approach and ask them to send out a notice to contributors and post something on the contributor dashboard.Īnd get a verified account for support posts here (not sure how to do that with a gig army) as we can't do anything with random posts by people we don't know.Do you notice how genuine this phishing email looks? (Photo Credit: )
If this is a sincere, but misplaced, attempt to be helpful by one of the new gig-economy support folks who can't provide support because they have no access to account information or sales information or review status or (anything else), thanks for the effort. Not every contributor will be reached by posting here. If this is the future of SS contributor support this is a total fail and they need to rethink how they're handling things. I honestly don't know what to make of this notification about a problem with the site that has only a spammy-sounding post from an unknown person. Just a bunch of content free posts with pretty pictures. Nothing on social media - where they typically post something about site problems.
I did change my password as a precaution, but also checked Shutterstock and Shutterstock Contributors twitter feeds, plus SS's facebook page.
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