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[Gaffers]

Password is/was reasonable, ie a mixture of things mean absolutely nothing, nothing fancy, but equally nothing obvious either 

Speaking to a recipient, is was a link to an article about weight loss or some such shit

Owt else to be done?

Was said recipient in your address book or sent history?

[05omegav6]

Everyone in my contact list it would seem

[Gaffers]

Well they most likely got in to your account then.  If it was a string of words it is likely they threw a dictionary attack at your password hash.  Just straight words are not the most secure.  Using symbols, capitals and numbers in your password forces a hacker to use Rainbow tables to hack your password hash.  Viable RT limit is currently about 8 characters so such passwords of at least 9 preferably 10+ are de rigeur these days

All about hashes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function

Here is a simplified(!) description of how rainbow tables work:
http://kestas.kuliukas.com/RainbowTables/

[05omegav6]

It's twelve characters and mixed letters /numbers... no birthdays etc

[Gaffers]

It's twelve characters and mixed letters /numbers... no birthdays etc

Well they must have got your password from somewhere to get access to your distro list.  Worthwhile changing it for something with symbols as well as caps and numbers 

[aaronjb]

I sense.. a discussion on passwords.



(Source: http://xkcd.com/936/)

[Gaffers]

We've been over this