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    [ PSA ] Securing Your Accounts Properly

    I'm sure most, if not all of you are aware of the precautions to take in order to secure your account and prevent it from being broken in to.
    I see a lot of people panicking over whoever is getting into accounts and morphing the UC's though. So I figured I'd just make a small post about what to do in order to secure your account.

    First things first. Change the password.
    It doesn't matter how long or complex the password is. If someone has access to it, they'll get into your account one way or another.
    Change it. If you haven't since the 2012 Data Base breach especially.
    Changing it more often is never a bad thing either. Better to be safe than sorry.
    If you really want a long complex password to help yourself feel a little more secure, save it to a notepad file just on the off chance that you forget.
    (you need an account to see links)

    Use this website to make a complex one. You can copy and paste it directly to Neo, and to anywhere you want to save the password, and it will make it complex based off your specifications.

    Secondly.
    Make sure your Email is active, and hasn't been purged.
    I'm sure everyone here uses an Email for Neo that is still active. But on the off chance that someone can find our Email, and realizes it isn't active. All they have to do is request your password and/or PIN. And they can change everything they want.
    On top of this, there are methods for people to get the password to your email, or one of your emails. While this isn't incredibly likely to happen, it's strongly recommended that you change your email password to something that is different from your Neopets password.

    ON TOP of this, you can ALWAYS change your current email.
    All you have to do it make a new email, activate it, and you can change your current registered Email on Neopets.
    Save any information you think you might forget to a notepad file somewhere.

    Lastly.
    You cannot have a PIN cracked that isn't on the "list" that people have.
    That list consists of PIN's also from 2012 and before. So any updated PIN afterwards cannot to cracked. Only guessed. So if you have something easy to guess as your PIN (For instance, I'll check numbers in birthdays if the PIN isn't on my list), change it. And if necessary save it to a notepad file as mentioned before.

    Do the above mentioned, and you'll be able to keep your account safe and secure.





    Also, there have been active exploits in the past (All of which have been patched now I assume) where people were able to grab users information through the trading post and shop wizard.
    While I know both of these methods have been patched, there's always the possibility for more exploits to be found. However, with no one complaining about odd occurrences and losing access to their accounts right after, I'd imagine it isn't from an exploit. But instead from the main reason I made this thread.

    Stay safe guys.
    Last edited by Mophead; 09-10-2016 at 10:30 PM.

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    Great warnings. In light of the recent hackings, pet poundings, pet morphings, and account thefts, it can't hurt to be a little extra precautious.

    Myself (and many others) are staying clear of the boards, in hopes of becoming potential targets ourselves. I'd advise anyone who doesn't need to use the boards (for trading/selling/buying) not to do so, but that's just my two cents.
    Stay safe everyone!

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    Thanks for looking out for us!

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    Thanks for the tips!

    In addition to saving your new passwords on your computer, I would recommend physically writing them down somewhere, or at the very least, using a cloud-type program that saves your passwords on more than one device. Especially if it's complex/randomly generated. Years ago I lost so many accounts because I only saved pws on one hard drive and my computer died and I was too ignorant back then to realize the hard drive content might have been recoverable.

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    Yes, write down your passwords AND the email thats connected to that account.

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    It's not only accounts with UCs though. The guy is morphing any pet they can get their hands on it seems.
    At least that was the case last night. Not sure if he changed his ways this morning.

    But yeah, very helpful. +1

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    Thank you, it's kinda scary what's been going on lately :/ Always better to be safe.

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    Thanks for the warnings c: I'll change my passwords to my neo accounts today.

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    bumping this as it seems to be relevant with the techo morphs going on!

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    Thank you for the tips. Just changed my passwords.

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