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On Getting Hacked

Having worked in tech for years, I had in myself a confident conviction that I would never be as dumb as falling for online traps. I am well acquainted with all of the common hacking attacks and have never been at the receiving end of one of them so far as I remember. Some of my credentials I found in leaks, but that, I was not responsible for. I avoid downloading random apps and files from the internet and have been using a password manager with these long, random types of passwords, called Strong Passwords, or Digital Gibberish, which you’d not be able to memorize even three consecutive characters from at a glance, unless one were a gifted person (I am not). Added on top of it, I had 2FA active on every service.

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