[Mik]

Here's how not to get your password stolen:

Don't use the same password on every site, if they steal one site's password, they've stolen them all and just have to try it out to to if it works

Don't write down your password

Don't save your password on your computer or in one of those password archivers

Every single time you log in, thoroughly check the url that's being used to make sure it's not a phishing site

Don't tell people your password

Don't use passwords that are easy, like qwerty or password

Don't use passwords that have your name or the like in them

Have an up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware
I personally recommend ESET NOD32 with Ad-aware SE Personal Edition

Changing your password doesn't necessarily help. I can guarantee that if somebody finds your password, right then and there it's going to be used. If somebody hacks a site and finds a BATCH of passwords, which happens often, they're going to use them and immediately get published to about 30 different forums. All of which generally have over 500 unique visitors daily.



If you follow that, I'm 99% sure it won't be YOUR fault if your password is stolen. There are still ways to hack passwords besides that but those would be the site's fault.