> How Did The EA Hack Happen? Here it was allegedly a bought cookie, although that is probably only a problem with large companies. In smaller ones the admins

> How Did The EA Hack Happen? Here it was allegedly a bought cookie, although that is probably only a problem with large companies. In smaller ones the admins know you personally. In many cases it is just a bad password for a service account or a phishing attack. The security FUD would sometimes believe you otherwise while pointing at spectres, but in practice it is mostly the same. > How To Prevent An EA Style Hack? You can mitigate the effect for your users at least by not collecting that much data. The article goes in the other direction and encourages storing context, while neglecting to mention that this data would also by compromised by now. I don't think this is good advice as leaked info would suddenly also contain your location. Does that sound good to you?