PSA: Tell your parents to never wire you money before calling you first

During our weekly TNW editorial meeting earlier today, I got a call from my father, which is something that doesn’t happen all that often. Especially not during working hours. I texted him back, and he told me I’d been hacked. My heart started pounding. I still get nightmares from that story Wired’s Mat Honan wrote when he got hacked, and lost all his personal data. What if someone read my conversations with my girlfriend? Found embarrassing group convos? Got into my work accounts? Or even worse: got into my banking stuff? I asked my dad what happened, and he started…

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