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Guiding you one step at a time
Our four steps to protect yourself now and in the future
Step one
Check your email account settings
Your personal email account is usually the center of your privacy, and most sites will use your email address to verify your identity. Within your email settings there will be options such as secondary addresses, a backup phone number, forwarding options, etc. If an attacker has altered these then simply changing your password will not be sufficient.
Step two
Change your email account password
Choose something unique and very secure and take advantage of any additional security options that your provider may offer.
Step three
Generate new passwords for all your online accounts
Set aside a little time to work through all your website registrations. It’s very helpful (and more secure) to use a system by which you can remember each password whilst keeping them complex and unguessable.
Step four
Further checks
A website such as haveIbeenpwned.com will tell you whether new passwords you've chosen are already in use by others who have suffered their own security breach. (This is a well-known and established free resource, operated by a regional Microsoft director.)
International Password Change Day
falls on the first Thursday of May each year whether or not you stick to this, it's an illustration of what's considered good practice.
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