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Turn On Two-Factor Where It Matters

A stolen password is useless without the second factor. Start with the accounts that can reset all the others.

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The steps

  1. Step 1

    Email first — it is the master key to everything else

  2. Step 2

    Then your bank and any brokerage

  3. Step 3

    Then your phone carrier account (this is how SIM-swap attacks start)

  4. Step 4

    Use an authenticator app rather than SMS wherever it is offered

  5. Step 5

    Save the backup codes in your password manager