paxum have been hacked?
 

or why the hell do i have to change my password again? big chars, small chars, numbers, special chars, nowhere else i have that fucking complicated pass and why the hell do i have to remember another password with that fucking special chars ... oh man ... i know, our security ... not even our national bank or my ge account have that paranoic security! oh man, oh oh oh man!!! :2 cents:

lol how can you moan about something that protects your $$$

lol so fuck the ge money bank and other banks that dont need all that security? yeah they are suckers they need to learn from paxum ... oh man ... not crying at all, just need to remember another complicated pass every month or so, just how boring it is ... :2 cents:

if you were familiar with online payment processors, you may should know that they force you to change your password periodically...

I have a system for Paxum - Something similar to mine would be Name:yearofbirth so all I have to remember is for example "Neil Armstrong" and then its easy to remember the person and get the year if you cant remember.

That's not exactly what I use but a similar idea.

I use a simple (TRUE) sentence with capital letters and grammar to tick all the requirements. For example

"When I was 5, I had a Dog called Patch"

Becomes:

"WIw5,IhaDcP"

Not a dictionary word, contains both Capital and non capital letters and also a number and 'special characters' (The punctuation)

Easy to remember and ticks all the boxes :)

i hope not :( .... huhuhu

So how do you know which sentence you use for which site? Assuming you don't use one password for everything.

Also, just get 1password. :)

I have paxum account but don't really use it. Why would I when there is wire!? :D

Fair comment, but most sites dont DEMAND such a intricate password..

However, if I wanted to use it for everything I would add the initials at the start and end - So:

NameCheap? NC"WIw5,IhaDcP"NC
PhatServers? PS"WIw5,IhaDcP"PS
Gmail? G"WIw5,IhaDcP"G

etc...

But 1pass is good too :)

abcd4321

Hey lucas,

On a regular basis (approximately every three months (or thereabouts) our system will prompt clients to change their password. This is in place for security purposes, and usually only takes a few moments of your time to update. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thanks :thumbsup

Whats more annoying is when you it asks you to change your password and you proceed to it then says "Password does not match on file" over and over again when it is the password on file. sigh

There's been an announcement apparently :2 cents:

Ugh.
Yet another pointless thread about Paxum...
Thanks assholes.

Have luck man! :1orglaugh:winkwink::thumbsup:pimp

Someone please hack my account on put some funds in there while you're at it ...

All that complicated password stuff is mostly useless for sites that has a password recovery feature that utilizes "security questions" - ie. what was your first school? what is your favorite mascot? what is your mother's middle name? etc ...

One's password security is only as good as the weakest link - I find it comical how many sites enforce all sorts of complicated, strict password restrictions and then allow simple one word responses to the security recovery questions that can be easily found / guessed.

dood, get keepass - it manages well all these crazy passwords, back it up on your mobile and somewhere like dropbox. i think you can even make use single keepass db file from dropbox on many devices

there's no excuse using weak, short, non-unique passwords, especially with your finances

Thanks for your input Ron. In theory you're right for general sites, however in the context of this thread and Paxum, you are incorrect.

The security questions used by Paxum for password security do not work in the way you describe. Providing the correct security question answer does not immediately provide a new password, a correct security question answer simply authorizes an email notification to be issued that contains a unique code that must be retrieved from the sent email and used to change the password.

Clients who have a complicated password for Paxum and also have a complicated password for their email, are at a much lower risk to be abused by hackers.

If you have never tried to change your Paxum account password, I'd like to suggest you give it a try and see the full procedure before judging our security system as pointless.

thats a good system!

Was expecting something like : "When I was 5, I had a Dog called Poo" still works :winkwink:

Keepass :winkwink: