Original Article on Gawker

Imagine if you turned on your computer and found your entire digital life was wiped: years of photos, emails, documentsgone. That happened to Wired writer Mat Honan last weekend, when hackers broke into his most important accounts. But it could have probably been prevented if he'd done one thing: Enabled "two-factor authentication" on his Gmail account. First, go here and enable two-factor authentication before you even read this. I know, two-factor authentication sounds sooooo boring. And it is, compared to the nightmare Honan went through. Honan details his experience at Wired, a Hopscotch of Doom where hackers lept from one of his accounts to the next, burning everything in their wake. The hackers first used information from Honan's Appl...(read more)