Thread: General Are @ntlworld email addresses compromised?
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Old 08-07-2022, 13:24   #11
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Re: Are @ntlworld email addresses compromised?
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Originally Posted by punkrock101 View Post
Not surprised when Virgin Media's password requirements are very lax.

Length must be between 8-10 characters
Must start with a letter
Must contain a number
Must not contain any spaces or any characters that aren't numbers or letters.

asking to be hacked to be honest. every other ISP and email provider on the planet has better requirements, just Virgin Media's systems seem to be stuck in the 90s would not surprise me if the system there are using was inherited from ntl: Telewest.
Not any more. It was updated last weekend and you can now have 8 to 64 characters and special characters are allowed.
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