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When it comes to Brexit negotiations I'm stuck on it, given the current economic turmoil one wonders whether we should postpone for at least months. Since that is how long the current malaise will probably last.

I want to be free from the grips of the EU ASAP, but there comes a point of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

That said if we do extend then we shouldn't be paying to the EU kitty.

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Well so far I had my Facebook account hacked and just received a password change request from netflix

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Did they actually get control of your Facebook or did you just receive a notification request to change the password?

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Facebook caught it as the login was in Vietnam

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I hope you have made your password more secure, i recently had a reset password request on mine but as that came to my email then it meant nothing and could of been a mistake.

To be honest it really isn't a good idea using ISP email addresses for site logins banking etc etc, best to use something not tied to your ISP like Outlook or Gmail.

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It's almost impossible to state that this has anything to do with Virgin, particularly if passwords are involved. Unfortunately usernames and passwords get hacked/leaked from all kinds of places these days.

Do yourself a favour, go on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and pop your email address in - this site keeps track of password lists from the internet and lets you know if yours has appeared on any. I'd be willing to bet your email and a password you have used is on a list somewhere, leaked from who knows where. You can also sign up on that site and it'll email you if a new breach occurs and your email is part of the list.

There's actually quite a market for people's stolen netflix (and other site) credentials, meaning there's an industry of tools to automate taking those password lists and trying the email/password combinations on a bunch of other sites.

The lesson from all of this is don't use the same password on more than one site. Use a password manager and use unique passwords for everything.

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Most people will likely have something flag up on that site so don't panic when yours does popup, it did prompt me to change my passwords though moving everything over to Lastpass password manager other than banking stuff.

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Agreed, I also switched to Lastpass when I first started using that site. I did move away from LastPass to Bitwarden though and it's just as good. There's also 1Password, which I've not used personally but comes highly recommended.

Basically, whatever password manager you do use is the best password manager.

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Why did you move ?

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It was a couple of years ago now, but at the time LastPass really dropped the ball on their Firefox support. Somewhere around when Firefox dropped the old extensions in favour of WebExtensions, LastPass was so broken it was unusable. So I looked for alternatives and BitWarden cropped up a few times. Worked a charm and continues to do so.

It's not perfect, autofill isn't as seamless as LastPass' but beyond that its polished, works better on Android and the built-in 2FA support is fantastic. I also like that it's open source and I can run it myself (IF I so choose).

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Just received a phone call claiming to be from The Lloyds Banking Group. They had a lot of my details because of the data breach by Virgin Media (they left their customer details unsecured on the internet for ages). Spoke to the Lloyds Banking Group fraud department who said that they had received lots of calls about this. They advised I'd done the correct thing in ending the call and contacting Lloyds Bank & the Halifax directly. Good job I checked!

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Supposition, not proven fact.

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Indeed

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Funny enough i had a similar call this morning + ive just had a second one all claiming to be acting from Lloyds Bank and data breach with First Virgin and secondly Amazon.