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Spent $40 on a hardware key and it stopped a login from a city I've never been to
I got a phishing email that looked real, like it was from my bank, and almost clicked the link. My gut said no, so I checked the sender address and it was a mess of random letters. That was the push I needed to buy a Yubikey for about forty bucks. I set it up for my main email and banking apps. Two days later, I got an alert that someone tried to log into my email from Moscow. The login failed because it asked for my physical key, which they obviously didn't have. That forty dollars felt like the best money I ever spent on my online safety. Has anyone else had a close call that made them finally get a hardware key?
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patriciam5113d agoTop Commenter
My cousin got her Instagram hacked last year and they posted some really weird stuff before she got it back. She never used two factor at all, just a simple password. It took her weeks to clean up the mess and convince people it wasn't her. That whole drama is what finally made me look into better security for my own stuff.
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mila_murphy2113d ago
Oh man "password123" is basically leaving your front door open with a sign that says "free stuff inside." I had a friend whose whole twitter got taken over because their password was their dog's name and birthday. They spent days explaining they didn't actually want to sell crypto to all their followers. It's wild how the dumbest little word can cause so much chaos.
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the_faith14d ago
My close call was a password I used for way too long that was basically "password123". I'm just glad I got a key before my own bad habits caught up with me.
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