I know that when something like this happens, the first instinct is to assume someone's computer has been infected with malware, but more and more I find this less often to be the case. Even casual users these days are less gullible to virus attached emails and later editions of Windows are better protected against malware. In short, this isn't 2001 and no one's running Windows 98 anymore.
Where users are more vulnerable would probably be wifi hotspots since unencrypted wifi packets can be easily intercepted. Similarly, WEP encrypted routers can be pretty vulnerable, too. But these days most wifi routers come with encryption turned on and again, even casual users are becoming more adept at turning on encryption (my mother changed out her wifi router a year ago and managed to turn on encryption on the new one, and she was 67 at the time!)
It sounds like Sonic didn't have any kind of breach and they're very adept to security issues so I'm guessing it was something that we as users did that managed to get our passwords mugged somehow. I do find it a little odd that both my password and my parents' accounts got our passwords hacked despite not using our computers to download lots of files or using any public wifi services. Mind you, I'm not trying to point the finger at Sonic, I'm just trying to find a common link. Either way, I hadn't changed my Sonic password in a l-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong time so that part is definitely my bad.
Where users are more vulnerable would probably be wifi hotspots since unencrypted wifi packets can be easily intercepted. Similarly, WEP encrypted routers can be pretty vulnerable, too. But these days most wifi routers come with encryption turned on and again, even casual users are becoming more adept at turning on encryption (my mother changed out her wifi router a year ago and managed to turn on encryption on the new one, and she was 67 at the time!)
It sounds like Sonic didn't have any kind of breach and they're very adept to security issues so I'm guessing it was something that we as users did that managed to get our passwords mugged somehow. I do find it a little odd that both my password and my parents' accounts got our passwords hacked despite not using our computers to download lots of files or using any public wifi services. Mind you, I'm not trying to point the finger at Sonic, I'm just trying to find a common link. Either way, I hadn't changed my Sonic password in a l-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong time so that part is definitely my bad.