Imagine your email routine. You log into your email and sit back to tackle your correspondence. You notice with some pleasure that there is a lot less spam than usual, and note that there generally is a light load to address. But then suddenly the mail you were about to read is gone. A few minutes later a few messages appear again and you start reading them. Then, boom - they are gone too. Panic takes hold.

This is the sort of thing that we all imagine can't happen to us - but is possible, and it did happen to a Kabissa member this week. It took a few days for them to realize what was going on, and it took an inquiry to Kabissa tech support to confirm it. We reviewed the server log files and found that the member's mail was indeed being picked up from somewhere else - by someone else.

What is the lesson learned? We are all at risk of this sort of thing happening to us if we do not change our passwords from time to time. We all have to tell colleagues our passwords for one reason or another during the course of our work. That is perfectly okay and we know who we trust, but there is a risk of passwords falling into wrong hands. This member doesn't even know who could possibly be accessing their email.

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