I don't know how they hacked it - probably because I used a weak password. DP responded back that they had cancelled the transfer and put the money back into my account so it's OK now. Cashing out on a regular basis seems like a good idea - I don't bother very often for the smaller sites but from now on will pay more attention. lima, I hope you got your money back too!
Great you got your money. In the past DP was processing payout within 5 days but now it takes 15 days for payment transfer to skrill.
For hacking account for website, hacker uses bruteforce for simpler password. For eg. password like john6459 will take only 1 minute for cracking
https://howsecureismypassword.net/), while strong password like John
[email protected] will take 3 million years for computer to bruteForce.
It looks like your system has been compromise. Have you checked your other miscrostock accounts, email etc.
Check your system for any hidden keylogger, rootkit or trojan with good malware tool. Mostly if hacker, gain access to compromise system, he silently monitor and steal data like password, credit card no, personal information (docs, pics, movie) etc. Today's malware programmer are smart enough and they are writing sophisticated malware.
Few suggestions for safety
1. Update your OS regularly
2. Update your anitvirus, anti-malware software regularly
3. Never use public system or public wifi connection for logging to your secure website.
4. Use on screen keyboard for entering user name / password to be safe from any keylogger.
5. Don't install untrusted software, keygen, patch, crack etc.
6. In windows, use restricted user account (by default windows install administrator account)
7. Never allow browser to save password by clicking REMEMBER ME. If you still need it, set strong master password for keeping those saved browser password un accessible to anyone, who gain control to your system
8. For safety from phishing, never open link from mail look similar to trusted one. In this forum some contributor told us about some suspicious looks trusted email from skrill but they were actually phishing scam.
9. Always type or paste or open from bookmark secure website ( for e.g
https://www.skrill.com/en/ and check SSL secure lock icon on left side of URL
10. From time to time change login password and make sure password length must be atleast 10 characters, contain Upper Lower case alphabets, numbers and special character i.e #$%@
One of my online banking website, automatically expire password after three months and bank account holder who are using virtual banking facility have to set new password after expiry of password. Good practice by financial institution IT department for users safety and security.
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