Heartbleed Bug- Change Your Passwords!
The Heartbleed Bug was a big internet security bug last week that leaked a lot of personal information from a huge variety of sites: banks, email, social media, shopping, and passwords. Sites are currently fixing the bug. If a site you use was affected, you should change that password immediately. Here is a list from CNN:
Change these passwords now (they were patched)
- Airbnb
- Google, YouTube and Gmail
- Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Tumblr, Flickr
- OKCupid
- Wikipedia
Don’t worry about these (they don’t use the affected software, or ran a different version)
- Amazon
- Apple, iCloud and iTunes
- AOL and Mapquest
- Bank of America
- BECU
- Capital One bank
- Charles Schwab
- Chase bank
- Citibank
- E*Trade
- Fidelity
- Healthcare.gov (Health Department said “security protections prevent this vulnerability from occurring.”)
- HSBC bank
- Hulu
- Microsoft, Hotmail and Outlook
- PayPal
- PNC bank
- Scottrade
- TD Ameritrade
- U.S. Bank
- Vanguard
- Wells Fargo
Don’t change these passwords yet (still unclear, no response)
- American Express