@PayPal_Olivia wrote: Hi bowzerbird, If someone has access to your email password, they have a treasure trove of information about you. Sites that are less secure than PayPal actually send passwords as plain text in an email. How many of those messages are sitting in your archive? Can a password scheme be guessed at by looking at those passwords? A person with your email password could remain more or less undetected by reading messages you've already read, or by quickly re-marking messages as read. It's a good idea to change your email password periodically to guard against that. The password on your email account is a similar situation. It's easy to think that your email password is not as important as your PayPal password or your online banking password, because it's not connected to your money. However, that email account is the garage door on your house. I hope this helps! Olivia Wow, Olivia THANKS! But, now I have more questions [I cut out what wasn't pertinent to my questions for brevity sake]: You said "send passwords as plain text in an email" I've never seen / heard of this. Who do they send the email to <> not me <> someone in their "hacking scheme" or am I saying that correctly? What would it look like? If I got an email with this PW as plain text, again, what would it look like? I know this sounds naive to ask. I use Thunderbird as my email client, if my PW was hacked, could they get into MY computer where the email is stored [if there is no keylogger installed already] and hack the email already there? I have email going back many years & an addressbook too. Caould they hack this? I back up the email folder frequently. I've also made sure no personal info is stored there [i.e. PW's, secure info, tax info, bank acct. info, nothing]! I don't use webmail per say except for junk and don't have addressbooks in them. The Pandora Box is getting bigger Thanks in advance, Ellen
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