On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:44:13 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 20/07/2020 12:00, Smolley wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:04:58 +0100, Pamela wrote:

On 08:21 20 Jul 2020, Brian Gaff (Sofa) said:

They are always telling us that we should use a password manager of
cours. However there is no 100 percent secure system if as has been
mentioned servers with customer data can be just sold to any tom dick
or Serge.

Judging by the OP's habit of reusing the same password, I wonder if he
also used it for his password manager allowing hackers to scoop up any
passwords which are different.

It's crazy to re-use a password for a site like Amazon where the
financial loss could become substantial.

Amazon uses my mac address as verification, when I use another computer I
have to return a phone code.

You IP address, various cookies and other "fingerprinting" they can do
on your browsers... unlikely to be a mac address directly unless you
have your PC plugged directly into their LAN!

Maybe Smolley has an Apple Mac and is referring to its address.