Hacking nightmare a cautionary tale

There's only so much you can do to protect yourself online. You can practice safe computing, not clicking on bogus links in e-mails or social media; by using strong passwords; by not giving out personal information to strangers. You can do all these thin

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My MacBook data - including those irreplaceable pictures of my family, of my child's first year and relatives who have now passed from this life - weren't the target. Nor were the eight years of messages in my Gmail account. The target was always Twitter. My MacBook data was torched simply to prevent me from getting back in....

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San Francisco Chronicle - 2012-08-08 02:40:00

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