Story time: I also once had my bank account hacked - in a manner of speaking. I tell you this story in the hopes that it helps you recognize if you have simila

Story time: I also once had my bank account hacked - in a manner of speaking. I tell you this story in the hopes that it helps you recognize if you have similar flaws in your own security. I used to run a VNC server on my home PC (flaw 1). Chinese hackers discovered it and spent three weeks brute-forcing the password (flaw 2). Once in, they installed TeamViewer to allow themselves future access. Then, they logged in at 3am and used my browser-saved PayPal credentials (flaw 3) to paypal themselves $5k from my linked chequing account (flaw 4). I discovered this several days afterwards when I saw the withdrawals hit my bank account. I then found a few further pending Paypal transactions, and pieced the rest together from VNC and router logs. Thankfully my credit union believed me that I didn't authorize the transactions and reversed them, making me whole again. But damn, it's a scary feeling having someone break into your computer, not knowing what they might have looked at or accessed. Very similar to having your home broken into.