What is very disturbing about all of this, is the fact that all the tools are publicly and readily available. What those two accomplished, was bringing to light that anyone could do it. You have to look at the flip side of things also. If our government told us everything they do so that we could live the "American Dream" things would fall into anarchy within thirty minutes or less world-wide.

About a year or so ago, I bought a set of springs from Century Spring Corp. and 30 minutes later they were breached and within an hour, some jerk-off in California was buying 5 pairs of Nike shoes with my Credit Card number. How they did it that fast is leading me to believe that it was inside help from within Century Spring..........however they won't admit that part, they just admitted they were breached is as far as they would go in the letter they sent me.

The funny part is, my bank that the card was linked to couldn't verify where the fraudulent charge originated until Century Spring Corp. admitted it was breached. Leaves me wondering even further who was really involved. .

Steve C said:

Always use a unique password for each site.

Excellent advice. Make it easier on yourself by using an established password manager.