Keeping passwords safe on an SMM panel — for owners and customers

Accounts on SMM panels hold money. That makes them worth stealing, and the easiest way in is almost always the password.

For panel owners

• Use a password manager and a unique, long password for every service: panel, email, hosting, registrar, payment accounts.
• Enable two-factor authentication on all of them.
• Never share the admin login. Give staff their own accounts so you can remove access and see who did what.

What to tell your customers

• Don't reuse the password from another site. If that site leaks, bots will try it on yours.
• Only sign in on the real domain — bookmark it.
• Nobody from support will ever ask for their password.

What the panel should do

A well-built panel protects customers even when they don't follow the advice:

• Rate limits and lockouts stop bots from guessing passwords at scale. On MediaPanal, five wrong attempts lock the account for a while — even the correct password is refused during the lockout.
• Strong hashing (such as Argon2id) means that even a leaked database doesn't reveal passwords.
• Checks against known-leaked passwords stop customers from picking one that's already in attackers' lists.
• Signing out every device after a password change, so a stolen session dies with the old password.
• A CAPTCHA on the login form to make automated attacks expensive.

If a customer's account is taken over

Suspend it, end its sessions, reset the password and review recent orders and payments before restoring access.