I'm asking this on behalf of a friend, but I'll speak from the first person.
Over the past few years, I have been hit with many messages from various services about people attempting to access my account. The services are mostly gaming ones, such as steam and origin, but I have also gotten pings from my credit and bank accounts.
All of my passwords have been changed and randomly generated, and thankfully nothing bad has happened yet. A few times my accounts have actually been accessed, but thankfully they were the ones with no saved credit card information. Most of the targets are failed login attempts.
It seems that when an IP is provided it's from India or nearby. I'm just wondering why this keeps happening to me, way more than what people close to me say should happen, and what steps I need to take to prevent this from happening!
I'm thinking of changing my email address, but if this won't do anything then I'd prefer to avoid it.
Thanks!
-C
Over the past few years, I have been hit with many messages from various services about people attempting to access my account. The services are mostly gaming ones, such as steam and origin, but I have also gotten pings from my credit and bank accounts.
All of my passwords have been changed and randomly generated, and thankfully nothing bad has happened yet. A few times my accounts have actually been accessed, but thankfully they were the ones with no saved credit card information. Most of the targets are failed login attempts.
It seems that when an IP is provided it's from India or nearby. I'm just wondering why this keeps happening to me, way more than what people close to me say should happen, and what steps I need to take to prevent this from happening!
I'm thinking of changing my email address, but if this won't do anything then I'd prefer to avoid it.
Thanks!
-C