If you wanted to change the number of drives, yes, you would have to start over. That applied to if you go 3x6TB and want to add another drive in the future, you wouldn't be able to expand the array with a new driver either (you would be able to throw in a single drive with no redundancy - it would be part of its own "array of just itself", assuming the NAS allows for this).
They come with an "app store" with tons of free apps for media servers or plex servers and many many more things.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-setup-plex-synology-nas
Long time lurker, just never got around to creating an account until I saw this thread.
I received one of the scam emails as well. Once I checked the headers and viewed the raw log files on the server I just laughed. The email address they had was just an email I used when I didn't want to use my main one. The password was one I had used in the past but hadn't in a very long time.
More than likely it was from a test Dropbox account for work.
However, I checked a couple of my good emails on Firefox Monitor and found out that Exactis just had a massive security breach on June 1, 2018. This is a data company that basically collects all the BS about you for marketing purposes. It says:
Exactis
Breach date:June 1, 2018 Compromised accounts:131,577,763 Compromised data:Credit status information, Dates of birth, Education levels, Email addresses, Ethnicities, Family structure, Financial investments, Genders, Home ownership statuses, Income levels, IP addresses, Marital statuses, Names, Net worths, Occupations, Personal interests, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Religions, Spoken languages
Although after reading some articles regarding this breach it was basically wide open for anyone to access (if they knew how) and includes 340 million people! Twice as many as Equifax. Most people don't even know they are in it. And that is a serious problem. They are skirting the law and something must be done to stop it.
Here is the story on Wired - https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/
There is also a class action lawsuit against them in Florida due to this breach - https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2018/06/29/florida-class-action-claims-exactis-breach-affects-230-million-americans/?slreturn=20180830162709
Some other notable breaches are: (this is a VERY small list) See more here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites
Mortal Online: Breached:June 17, 2018 Compromised accounts:606,637 Compromised data:Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Physical addresses, Usernames
Ticketyfly: Breached:May 31, 2018 Compromised accounts:26,151,608 Compromised data:Email addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
ViewFines: Breached:May 7, 2018 Compromised accounts:777,649 Compromised data:Email addresses, Government issued IDs, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers
FunnyGames: Breached:April 28, 2018 Compromised accounts:764,357 Compromised data:Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
Bell: Breached:May 15, 2017 Compromised accounts:2,231,256 Compromised data:Email addresses, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Job titles, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Spoken languages, Survey results, Usernames
Zomato.com - Breached March 17, 2017 Compromised accounts: 16,472,873
Edmodo.com - May 17, 2017 Breached Compromised accounts: 43,423,561
8Tracks: Breached:June 27, 2017 Compromised accounts:7,990,619 Compromised data:Email addresses, Passwords
MasterDeeds: Breached:March 14, 2017 Compromised accounts:2,257,930 Compromised data:Dates of birth, Deceased statuses, Email addresses, Employers, Ethnicities, Genders, Government issued IDs, Home ownership statuses, Job titles, Names, Nationalities, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
Disqus.com Breached July 1, 2012. Compromised accounts: 17,551,044
Dailymotion: Breached:October 20, 2016 Compromised accounts:85,176,234
Fashion Fantasy Game: Breached:December 1, 2016 Compromised accounts:2,357,872 Compromised data:Email addresses, Passwords
Adobe.com: Breached:October 4, 2013 Compromised accounts:152,445,165 (this one included password hints as well) STOP USING MAIDEN NAMES, PET NAMES
Cash Crate: Breached :November 17, 2016 Compromised accounts:6,844,490 Compromised data:Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Physical addresses
Leet: Breached:September 10, 2016 Compromised accounts:5,081,689 Compromised data:Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames, Website activity
NemoWeb: Breached:September 4, 2016 Compromised accounts:3,472,916 Compromised data:Email addresses, Names
i-Dressup: Breached:August 30, 2016 Compromised accounts:845,012 Compromised data:Email addresses, Email messages, IP addresses, Names
Wishbone: Breached:August 7, 2016 Compromised accounts:2,247,314 Compromised data:Auth tokens, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Phone numbers, Usernames
Funimation: Breached:July 1, 2016 Compromised accounts:2,491,103 Compromised data:Dates of birth, Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames
Army Force Online: Breached :May 18, 2016 Compromised accounts:1,531,235 Compromised data:Avatars, Email addresses, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Usernames, Website activity
Modern Business Solutions: Breached October 8, 2016 Compromised accounts:58,843,488 Compromised data:Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, IP addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
Black Hat World: Breached:June 23, 2014 Compromised accounts:777,387 - Compromised data - Dates of birth, Email addresses, Instant messenger identities, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames, Website activity
Cracking Forum: Breached:July 1, 2016 Compromised accounts:660,305 Compromised data:Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
LinkedIn: Breached: May 5, 2012 Compromised accounts:164,611,595 Compromised data:Email addresses, Passwords
MySpace: Breached: July 1, 2008 Compromised accounts:359,420,698
Breach date:April 10, 2014 Compromised accounts:2,628,148
Cafe Mom: All of the above included the following compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames
Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump- Breached:January 9, 2014 Compromised accounts:4,789,599 Compromised data:Email addresses, Passwords
DaniWeb: Breached:December 1, 2015 Compromised accounts:1,131,636 Compromised data:Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords
MyFHA: Breached :February 18, 2015 Compromised accounts:972,629 Compromised data:Credit status information, Email addresses, Home loan information, Income levels, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Personal descriptions, Physical addresses
Yahoo: Breached:July 11, 2012 Compromised accounts:453,427 Compromised data:Email addresses, Passwords
Lastfm: Breached March 22, 2012 Compromised accounts:37,217,682 Compromised data:Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames, Website activity
Evony: Breached:June 1, 2016 Compromised accounts:29,396,116 Compromised data:Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
Kickstarter: Breached:February 16, 2014 Compromised accounts:5,176,463 Compromised data:Email addresses, Passwords
Job Street: Breached :March 7, 2012 Compromised accounts:3,883,455 Compromised data:Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, Government issued IDs, Marital statuses, Names, Nationalities, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Usernames
Elance: Breached: January 1, 2009 Compromised accounts:1,291,178 Compromised data:Email addresses, Employers, Geographic locations, Passwords, Phone numbers, Usernames
Even though some maybe older, the large data files are still being sold on the dark web. Which could be why some people see old passwords. Plus, they may have more than one of your email addresses. So they can try logging into your other accounts with the same password. Another reason not to use duplicate passwords, ever.
However, people are still selling MySpace database dumps. Now you can even buy 27 million Experian records! Which makes me wonder because the wording of what the data includes is a lot like the Exactis data description. Perhaps, they are so stupid they don't realize there is a difference. I hate these deep web sites. There is so much fraud happening it is unbelievable. You can purchase an ounce of coke, bag of pills, some weed and as a bonus some rich businessman's AMEX card data along with his dob, ss#, dl#, and address all in the same shopping cart! It is pathetic and these people are getting away with it, for the most part. See my screenshot of the fraud listings being offered on a deep web site.
Use extreme passwords everyone. Nothing less than 20 characters when it's allowed. This little article is quite helpful in understanding just how easy it is for these fools to get your password, if they tried. https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/11/12/need-know-passwords/
Try the Norton Password generator and use 20+ characters. https://my.norton.com/extspa/idsafe?path=pwd-gen
I hope this helps some of you narrow down where your data was breached.
Cheers
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