You Could Be Locked Out of Your Own Accounts

Whether it’s just your email account or all your other online accounts, if a cybercriminal gets a hold of your password and email address, you could lose access to your whole digital life in a flash.

If scammers manage to reset your passwords on all the platforms they can, you’ll immediately lose access to everything. We’re not talking about just social media platforms, but even things like bank and brokerage accounts, and of course your own email address.

Not only would you lose access to your online accounts, but they’d be able to impersonate you.

Plus, if they can use this to get access to your Apple ID, then they can also remotely wipe all your devices — and erase your iCloud backups too. That may sound farfetched, but it’s been done before. Your entire digital existence could be wiped out in a heartbeat.