I've had a not very good week.

If we're being honest on Sunday, I was putting or into bed and I noticed I've gotten an email.

That was a response to an E mail that apparently I had sent.

But it wasn't from me freaked out.

The first thing I did is I gave Catherine my child and I said, Hello.

And then I look to see if there were any logged in devices to my Google account that weren't me, and there weren't any, and there hadn't been for a while.

That was great news.

It turned out the e mail that they had received was sent from inside a help desk of an app that I hadn't logged into for years, and that wasn't that big of a deal.

But also, they had tried to access, like dozens of different accounts using old password that had been compromised but don't use very much anymore, but was in use on some platforms.

And I'm not gonna like they got into a couple of places and they didn't do it with, like, super computer programming stuff.

They did it because I was lax on security and I took old passwords that were associated with my accounts and tried them with my email addresses in other places to see if it would work.

And it did.

They didn't seem to get in anything super important, but it's hard to tell, and I didn't really know that for a long time.

I said to my friend, who is a security consultant?

Seems like I dodged a bullet, she said.

And I quote, You didn't dodge it, you got grazed and there are more coming.

So that's how her thing works.

But it's true.

Hacking is inevitable.

Asked on Twitter and 30 something percent of people said that they had never been hacked.

So most people have, and also probably most of those people have in one way or another been hacked.

They just don't know it or don't think of it that way you can get hacked and not even know it.

There are dark breaches.

Yahoo, Yahoo!

Had billions of accounts leaked and didn't notice for like years, which means there might be other platforms out there that have been hacked and no one knows yet and those passwords are on sale.

That's why it's so important to use a password manager I use last past.

There are several others.

They are all much better than not using password managers, mostly because you can have unique passwords for every account.

If you don't do this, then one thing gets compromised and suddenly you have this cascade of tons of things that are now vulnerable.

It was a super stressful thing, mostly because I didn't know how much stuff they've gotten access to for a long time.

I still don't really know.

And also, it's taking me a couple days to, like, really dive deep and make sure that all my passwords are not compromised and I'm not using any duplicates.

So maybe my experience can be a wake up call and also a call to change some things Not like you, but like us is a society.

At first.

When it comes to you hear things you should do one goto Have I been pone dot com?

My email address, which is admittedly quite old, has been involved in over 30 data breaches who you have to use a password manager.

Otherwise you're gonna have duplicates, and you're gonna have weak passwords.

And yes, this isn't just a sign up thing.

It's probably gonna take hours of work to get all of your accounts into the password manager and make sure you don't have any duplicates.

And finally, yes, less convenient.

But turn on two factor authentication for every account that you have that contains important data or financial information.

But there are also things that we need to force companies to do.

First, we need to force them to have two factor authentication that isn't based on text messages, which aren't encrypted.

Second, we need them to give us convenient access to some kind of tool that tells us where we are logged in from all of the time and keep records of that.

And finally, this is very possible, but mostly not being done.

We need companies to give us access to tools that let us see what has been done on our account because knowing you've been hacked is not the same thing as knowing what those hackers did.

Giant, powerful, very wealthy Internet companies.

Are you listening?

Make this easier?

Help us or, you know, barring that, politicians make them help us.