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What is the scariest moment in security in your life?
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<blockquote data-quote="Oldie1950" data-source="post: 1035839" data-attributes="member: 94738"><p>It was a few years ago that a new system (IBAN) was introduced for bank payments. On a Sunday afternoon I received an e-mail in which I was asked to submit all bank and credit card details with passwords so that the conversion to IBAN can be carried out. After a long lunch with a few glasses of wine my brain probably didn't have that good blood supply anymore, so I clicked on the link in the e-mail, entered the data and sent it off. Seconds after I did that, it hit me like lightning and I realized what a fool I had done. I immediately changed all passwords. After a few weeks, I find out that a stranger had tried to log into one of my accounts. Since it didn't work, he tried to set up a new password himself. Of course, I didn't confirm the email that asked me to confirm the change. So I got out of it unscathed. That never happened to me again after that. To this day I still cannot understand how I could have made this mistake.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldie1950, post: 1035839, member: 94738"] It was a few years ago that a new system (IBAN) was introduced for bank payments. On a Sunday afternoon I received an e-mail in which I was asked to submit all bank and credit card details with passwords so that the conversion to IBAN can be carried out. After a long lunch with a few glasses of wine my brain probably didn't have that good blood supply anymore, so I clicked on the link in the e-mail, entered the data and sent it off. Seconds after I did that, it hit me like lightning and I realized what a fool I had done. I immediately changed all passwords. After a few weeks, I find out that a stranger had tried to log into one of my accounts. Since it didn't work, he tried to set up a new password himself. Of course, I didn't confirm the email that asked me to confirm the change. So I got out of it unscathed. That never happened to me again after that. To this day I still cannot understand how I could have made this mistake. [/QUOTE]
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