This story highlights a terrible lesson: those who shouldn't have to - and certainly don't want to - understand computer security must nevertheless understand computer security.
What should you do? The prominent technology blogger Farhad Manjoo writes about four things you need to do right now to avoid getting hacked. Frankly I'm not totally clear on all of his recommendations. But I'll add one more that I did just now, after reading Mat Honan's article: I logged into Amazon.com and deleted every credit card they had on file for me.
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