Help with someones ID please

[Halon]

Thanks to everyone who's tried. Both the bank and Paypal are investigating.

[blackrosenova400]

Yeah, use different passwords for stuff, and make sure they're secure ones. Even one number goes a long way. If you must reuse passwords (due to memory or whatever) be very careful not to get caught by phishing sites, they'll be able to completely screw you over. Still, using only one password that's fairly secure is so much better than using more than one and having to write them all down.

Remember, dsmlol isn't even half as secure as dsm101. Simple math tells you for a 6 digit password, changing 3 letters to 3 numbers means they'd have to go through 511110080 more permutations to brute force it. ;)


How can that be? Theres 26 options or letters to the alphabet and 10 options 0-9, unless someone were to guess (lol).

[tpunx99GSX]

How can that be? Theres 26 options or letters to the alphabet and 10 options 0-9, unless someone were to guess (lol).

Because instead of 26 possible letters per space, you have 36 possible options because you are adding 10 numbers.
So if you do the math, it would be 36*36*36*36*36*36 for a 6 digit password. Which would actually be 2,176,782,336 possible solutions as opposed to 308,915,776 (26*26*26*26*26*26) the difference 1,867,866,560 possible solutions difference.
When ever i am securing a Server with new passwords i always use Upper Case, lower case, numbers and symbols. Which ends up being a crap load more. But most websites disregard upper and lower.
not sure how spaz got his number.

[tpunx99GSX]

They performed 2 transactions. One for $25 and another for $200. It shows that they purchased gift certificates for Ebay.


Im surprized that ebay didnt just void the Gift Certs and credit you back. Unless they have already been used.

[Kracka]

That website says my email is from denver, CO. Im pretty sure I checked my email in denver, maaaybe once ever. Please dont pay them any money !
Says I'm in California...never even been in that state!

"San Pablo, California, US"

[tpunx99GSX]

Says I'm in California...never even been in that state!

"San Pablo, California, US"

What email did you use. Its likely its just looking up where the DNS is resolving.

[Kracka]

Gmail

[cmspaz]

Got my number because I did it specifically for the change I made, from 26^6 to 26^3*36^3. ;)

[CVD]

I'd let the bank sort it out, change your passwords and call it a day. When my paypal account got jacked, I figured out it was done from some university campus computer in Kenya. Yay, now what? And I automatically assume that if they're smart enough to break into the account in the first place, they're smart enough not to allow that email addy to come back to them. They probably set up a brand new @yahoo account for every successful theft.
It's happened to me twice, and it's extremely frustrating. But it's really best to chalk it up to a learning experience and make your identity more secure.

[tpunx99GSX]

Got my number because I did it specifically for the change I made, from 26^6 to 26^3*36^3. ;)
Actually your math is wrong. If you were to do a strict 3 alpha, 3 numeric it would be 26^3*10^3 because you are limiting the last three to only numbers. When in reality if you just a a mix of 3 numbers and 3 letters not worrying about their placement the math would be 36^6. *sorry that is wrong* it would be 26^3*36^3.