Account Security

by posted in General
Jun 7
2012

With 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords compromised in the past 24 hours, now is a good time to ensure your Envato accounts are secure.

If you use the same password on LinkedIn as you do for Envato services (or for anything else) you should change that password immediately on ALL services on which you use it.

If you want to check if your LinkedIn password is one that has been stolen, you can use this page from LastPass.

Even if your password has not been compromised, we suggest you change your Envato passwords frequently and make sure they are complicated and hard to hack.

Thanks for listening to this community service announcement :D . We hope all your accounts remain hack free.

  1. John Smith on the 7th June

    Please implement https on sites, it’s long overdue.

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    • Anjum on the 7th June

      Yes this is the time to secure our marketplace by using SSL over https://

      i have sad it before in a forum post

    • Diana on the 7th June

      Totally agree, SSL is for sites like marketplaces, we are dealing with real money no trade points,

    • Sam on the 7th June

      It is pointless implementing them on the main site. As long as the the payment processor are protected by SSLs everything else is fine.

    • Heather on the 7th June

      I third that. HTTPS!!

    • Jarne on the 7th June

      Agree! HTTPS!

    • Daniel Wallace on the 8th June

      HTTPS won’t help idiots who use the same password everywhere. HTTPS will just slow down the site for no reason.

  2. Raj on the 7th June

    Thanks for the info i willjust change my password.

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  3. Peter Zickler on the 7th June

    The tragedy..

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  4. peerforest on the 7th June

    +1 John Smith…

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  5. Smartik on the 7th June

    I have a linkedin account, but I never use it, and no idea which is the password. :D

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    • Corbin on the 7th June

      Maybe you could contact the hackers and request a password reminder?

    • TASSAWII on the 7th June

      Linkedin plzzzzzzzzz haha

  6. Cgpation on the 7th June

    Thanks Carmen!

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  7. Mehmet Sali on the 7th June

    This is a tragedy for LinkedIn.

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  8. Abhimanyu Sharma on the 7th June

    Great News..!!
    But what about LastPass. how they know if your password get compromised..??
    Thanks for information

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    • iapcsolutions on the 7th June

      Because the hackers posted the list of hacked passwords. That being said, it may not be the full list…

  9. Ithi on the 7th June

    Thanks Carmen! I really like that i have been informed about stuff like this, someone is carrying about own users. Thats nice.

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  10. Kailash on the 7th June

    Thanks for the info!

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  11. Faton on the 7th June

    Thanks for the info!

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  12. Nuruzzaman Sheikh on the 7th June

    Very very helpful post. A thousand thanks. And feeling really sad about loosing that huge amount of passes.

    Anyway will definitely take your suggested steps to secure myself :P

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  13. Placdarms on the 7th June

    Looks like someone ran out of ideas for new passwords and decided to steal 6.5 million passwords from LinkedIn users. Now he will have enough ideas for life. :D

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  14. SferaMusic on the 7th June

    so, people! use different passwords for each account!)))

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  15. Mubashar Ali on the 7th June

    It’s disappointing for me to have such a news almost in every weeks. Hackers even grabbed security companies and banks databases. I am pretty sure these giants have much secure security system than linkedIn. I hope my account don’t get lost. Thanks for reminding me about threat.

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  16. Risorsa on the 7th June

    I have an account, i change the password but this is incredible !! 6.5 million passwords!

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  17. Yigit on the 7th June

    How did this happen anyway?

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  18. Abhishek Shah on the 7th June

    God . . . My password was hacked !!! terrible dont know what are these guys upto. Thanks Evanto

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  19. TJ on the 7th June

    i use https on my sites :)

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  20. Femi Adegbesan on the 7th June

    Hi,

    May I voice my concern for what might be a “crowd sourcing” attempt by lastpass.com. When a trusted vendor such as Envato, points us to LastPass.com, we count it legit, but realize that in the end, the owners of LastPass would have crowd-sourced the reverse-engineering of at least a good amount of the otherwise useless Hash codes.

    Anyway, that was my gut reaction when I got to the site from the link on this post.

    Much regards,
    –

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  21. TanyDi on the 7th June

    Unfortunately I was hacked….i must change alot passwords….
    Thanks for info

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  22. thecodingdude on the 7th June

    Thanks for the tips on basic internet security.

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  23. Auma Rivero on the 8th June

    Mine was compromised. Know if your LinkedIn password is one of those hacked. Check it out here. http://www.lastpass.com/linkedin.

    :(

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  24. louis on the 8th June

    since my complaint about ur insane captha torture device i have spent over $6,000 on other sites which allow me access without ruining my day.

    i am willing to believe that the authors on here who did not benefit from my buying spree would rather have taken the chance than lose my business

    oogedy boogedy envato. im sure the techs who dreamed up ur utterly useless security scheme feel justified.

    until the tail stops wagging the dog here i the current $8 in my envato account will be the last dime i spend here until its fixed.

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