Think you're safe? Secure your Email!

#1 - May 15, 2014, 10:42 p.m.
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My wife’s Hotmail account was recently hacked and the people who got into it were able to clean out all of her gold and items in a matter of minutes. If we would have known that Hotmail and many other email services offer 2 step verification to secure your account we would have had it enabled.

We do now.

For those of you who say “This couldn’t happen to me” you are wrong. I was in the process of smugly trolling my wife about getting hacked and she suggested I check my personal email. Hotmail offers the ability to see how many log in attempts were made in the last 30 days and to my shock I had over 40 attempts from China and Vietnam (pic attached)

Take the time to secure your email account now and also DO NOT keep your serial number on the same email account as you have registered to your account. This is like leaving a signed title to your car in the glove box!

#4 - May 16, 2014, 1:52 p.m.
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This is very solid advice, thank you for sharing. ANY type of authentication system is valuable to protect against compromise situations!