Hey you and welcome! I'm Mr. Berry and in this whole video, I want to talk about how
gm accounts have been hacked whose account was hacked what data was breached and how you can
actually take measures to protect your account and your other information immediately here
so the story is general motors suffered a hack and a data breach that basically exposed a significant
amount of sensitive personal information on car owners now this included names addresses
phone numbers locations cars that the persons own the car mileage and even the maintenance history
now the detroit based automaker has revealed details of the incident of the data breach and
basically they had to file a california attorney's general's report there and this occurred back in
may the 16th now the disclosure explains that malicious login activity was detected
and an unspecified number of gm online user accounts between april 11th and april the 29th
were hacked into there further investigation revealed that the company had been hit by
a credential stuffing attacked and a credential stuffing attack happens when attackers use
list of compromise user credentials to breach into a system the attack uses bots
for automation and scale and is based on the assumption that many users reuse the same user
names or passwords across multiple services now when we look at that what data was actually you
know sent out and and or basically stolen we can see that some of the information
not that important right maybe an email address or something like that but actually these accounts
are actually connected to points that gm gives to so that means there's monetary gain
for the hackers and the people involved with the data breach the the actual users who lost their
information they should take action immediately and they could have suffered financial losses
through this breach so exactly what kind of information are we looking at well it was
first and last name personal email addresses home addresses gm usernames phone numbers and also uh
favorite locations or where the person has gone to their onstar package information family members
avatars as well as their photos profile pictures search and destination information reward card
activity and i'll get into more of that here in a little bit there and also even redeemed reward
points now that sounds terrible but there is a caveat here the users birthdays social security
numbers credit card information or even their bank information was not stolen in this breach because
thankfully gm does not store that information on their servers all right now exactly how
many people or how many accounts were hacked into that exact number has not been made known however
since they did file the report in california we know that is greater than 500 user accounts or
500 people's accounts were hacked into now um let me get back to the reward card activity and
the redeemed points or reward points for gm users they have the ability to as they're using their
account they accur or they gain more of these reward points which then translate into moolah or
gift cards these gift cards can then be used in amazon and other online outlets what the hackers
did was when they went in there they stole that information and basically stole the reward points
so that the hackers could then redeem those points and gain a financial gain from there
and that's why i'm making this video i feel that many of my students or many of my uh subscribers
this is big news so if you do have a gm vehicle or you have a gm account you need to go to
gm.com log in and update that password okay so in order to update or to change your credentials in
gm you'd go to gm.com and then click on to your avatar where you log in once you're logged in
you'll notice that you'll see your car is there and go ahead and click on your name
and then you'll see this pop-down menu appear off to the side click on account overview and
then your account will open up you'll see some information about you they'll be posted
there as you see here over on the side click on security where it says email password and pin
that will open up your security page and that way you can click on change password and you
can change it or update your password at that time also if there's other accounts that you've
linked to the gm make sure you've updated those passwords as well and also turned on
what's called two-step verification now you can do that by going into the account going to settings
and if it allows you to go in and then say i want to add two-step verification and that way whenever
you log into your account from a new device or a new computer your phone will ring saying hey is
this you logging into your account where you can say yes or no on your cell phone now the thing
to remember with a with a two-step verification like that is if you do change your phone number
or change your phone um you need to go into your accounts to have the two-step verification turned
on and make sure that you update that information with the new phone number before you have no more
access to the old phone because it will always go to that old phone number until you update it
alright so that's the big story that i wanted to share with my subscribers that general motors
accounts have been hacked into hey if you like these types of videos please give it a thumbs up
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