Current Events Article

  In this weekend's current events article I actually found an article that was quite interesting, yet very frightening to me. I learned how easy it is to get hacked. Not just hacked on social media, but getting out credit cards, social security, even our medical records, hacked. Now everyone might be saying, "how does this even apply to me," because I know I thought the same when I read the article's title "Welcome to the Age of Hacks." It's actually really easy for any of us to get hacked. I recently decided to get my first debit card, but using debit and credit cards can be more dangerous than we all know. Especially now since it's so easy to do everything from our phones. One swipe and a hacker can use all your information. They can take money from your bank accounts, use your social security, anything. The possibilities of information they can get to are limitless. It's actually said to be really easy to do also, big companies like Target, who lost $146 million from the jacks done to their customers. This article said to use cash as much as possible. Swiping ours cards is more dangerous than we think. And getting all your information back and our of the hackers hands is a tedious and long process. Good luck getting the mess figured out once it happens. 

     I liked this article a lot because it pertained to me, it has to do with so many people today, and so many generations to come. Hacking is so prevalent now. Seems like way too many petiole know how to take advantage and hurt people's lives. I'm shocked at how many people were hacked in the past year: almost half American adults. That's so many that it's not only alarming but makes you think about how important it is to take necessary precautions. No one is safe, seriously no one. Keep an eye on bank accounts, credit cards. People can get your information from hospital records as well. Well aren't those "classified?" Pretty scary to think about. 

  

Here's my article link, I suggest everyone actually read it: 

http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/04/technology/security/age-of-the-hack/index.html