Security → This is how your Gmail account got hacked

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"If your Gmail account got hacked, blame your friends.

You are 36 times more likely to get scammed if your contacts' accounts have been hacked, according to a study released this week by Google (GOOG).

It's rare. On an average day, only nine in 1 million accounts gets stolen. But when it happens, the operation is swift. These are professional criminals at work, looking through your email to steal your bank account information..."

"Trust no one." --Fox Mulder :P

THX 4 sharing "Fox Mulder" & right on TNO [ Trust no one ], antdude

How many people keep their e-mail on-line? I, at most, have a couple of weeks of e-mail on line and that is the e-mail that hasn't been trashed. Every couple of weeks I download my e-mail to my machine and delete it from the server. Even if you got access to my e-mail with the maximum amount of e-mail on there any bank/credit card e-mails are handled immediately and deleted, with the exception of e-mails regarding charges and payments which are held until the next download as I may need these as proof of a scheduled payment.

Didn't we do this dance already
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