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- Remove your most precious info from online accounts (e.g. everything in the real world, such as your physical address). Use PO boxes / mail forwarding / etc.
by raquo 9y ago
- Remove your most precious info from online accounts (e.g. everything in the real world, such as your physical address). Use PO boxes / mail forwarding / etc. for that
- Create a new, anonymous email account and use that for accounts that you care about to minimize the chance of successful social engineering attacks
- Depending on how serious this is and how much the hacker knows, consider warning your friends and maybe even colleagues about the situation
- Obviously don't have anything visible to friends-of-friends or to the public on facebook, remove your public photos especially those that can be photoshopped into a fake id, etc.
I'm not an expert in this, just some ideas.
- goblins 9y agoNot an expert but I have different email addresses for different thing, currently about 20 email addresses with different providers. I manage them with a password manager which I obviously recommend for your passwords. This means the if say my social media account got compromised (not that I have a social media presence) then they can't use that email to compromise my banking or other types of accounts. I also have a number of "spam" email addresses for sign ups.