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I would recommend using a unique password for your account. One of the most common security risks is when there is a data breach at a large organisation (such as happened at Dropbox or Facebook) and your data is sold online for hackers to try your credentials at other sites.
Here is a website which shows the latest large data breaches and you can also see if your email has previously been compromised in a data breach - https://haveibeenpwned.com
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Other companies which use the Ghost blogging platform are DuckDuckGo, OpenAI and Duolingo.
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Regards, Iain F
I will link in this section to useful resources related to online security.
Rob Cubbon has a couple of good articles on the subject: