June 23, 2026
“I don’t have much — why would anyone come after me?” It is one of the most common things people believe about their safety online. It is also the belief that does the most damage.
Consider what it cost one person. Sure they were too ordinary to be worth targeting, they used a single password they could remember — a genuinely strong one — for everything: email, the social accounts, the shopping sites. And, because it was easier, for online banking too. Then one of those sites was breached, the way sites are breached every week. The leaked password was tried automatically against every other account — and it worked. They found out when the bank account was empty and there was nothing left to pay with. The following weeks ran on borrowed money.
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