In an email sent out last night, online shoe and clothing store Zappos let customers know that its database of passwords and usernames was hacked. Your credit card information is safe and all Zappos passwords have been reset, but if you use the same password and email elsewhere, a password audit is in order.
If you're currently a Zappos customer, you can head over to Zappos' official password change page to learn everything there is to know about the incident. In short, the information accessed by hackers includes: your name, email address, billing address, phone number, the last four digits of your credit card, and a scrambled version of your password (which could possibly, with enough time and effort, be cracked).
While it sounds like your Zappos account is safe, it's a good reminder to change any passwords for other sites where you have a similar email and password combination?and if you haven't already, now's a great time to set yourself up with a secure password management tool. Here's a quick primer for getting started with our favorite password manager, LastPass:
- If you're brand new to LastPass, head over to our beginner's guide to LastPass to get up and running.
- If you're already using LastPass, our intermediate guide will help you go beyond the basics.
- Of particular interest right now, you can use LastPass to audit and update your passwords. Their audit tool can reveal your least secure passwords, which passwords you're repeating on various sites (fixing this for a password you may have repeated on Zappos will be especially important), and more.
Using a tool like LastPass may seem like overkill, but remember: The only secure password is the one you can't remember. You're better safe than sorry.
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