Category: Google account

This is one of the most frightening hacking stories I've read, because I immediately recognized my own vulnerability. 

The victim, Matt Honan, is a writer for Wired, where he tells the story of the nightmare he experienced over the weekend. It's worth reading to understand what your own vulnerability might be, but it's also worth reading as a piece of journalism: Honan does a very nice job of telling a complicated personal story.

Honan is a familiar figure to many online, and to readers of Wired. Despite his intimacy with the Web, he admits that he made a mistake that he should never have made:

Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn't have had to wrorry about losing more than a year's...