Have you been following tech news lately? Actually, you don’t have to follow tech news to have heard about all of the high profile hacking attempts (and successes) and disruptions of late.
While I could go on and on about the sites responsible for keeping your information secure, or not, how the sites we use secure our information is out of our hands.
What you can do on your end, is pretty simple: whenever and wherever you have a login account, use good, strong passwords. It should go without saying that every password you use should be a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters/punctuation, whenever possible. While I appreciate the love we have for our partner, child, parent or pet, using their names is a really, really unwise choice. Using any word found in a dictionary in almost any language would be unwise as well.