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When Technology Becomes Weaponized and the Target is You

“Technology is a wonderful thing but it’s scary when it’s weaponized against you.” The first sign that my wife’s identity and my own were under attack came innocently enough. It was an e-mail alert that we get from time to time from Comcast, so innocent that I almost ignored it.  But it said our password had been changed.  When we tried to log-in to download e-mail, the system indicated the password was incorrect. “That’s weird”, we thought. I mean, we have two factor authentication on it so that if someone DOES try to change the password, shouldn’t they need a code? So I called Comcast and was assured repeated that our password wasn’t changed and our account was not compromised. They said it was a phishing exercise and the e-mails were fake too. As for the account access, they said that someone may have just tried to access it but they were unsuccessful. Comcast easily reset the password for me and since two factor a...