You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you.
Thanks to an explosion of personal information being stored in the cloud, tricking customer service agents into resetting passwords has never been easier.
===> All a hacker has to do is use personal information that’s publicly available on one service to gain entry into another. <===
Big THANKS to my online friend Kevin
https://twitter.com/kevin_corbett for having shared this link with me
Read more, a MUST:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/
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