How to lose $8,000 worth of Bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase

in coinbase •  8 years ago 

broke-monopoly-guy.pngI just found this story--horrible. Imagine seeing $8,000 in Bitcoin vanish in real-time via a few text messages and emails from Coinbase--all of which this poor person had no control over and basically lost it all. His account was hacked on Coinbase due to some lax security on his part (and Verizon, for that matter).

Moral of the story--SECURE YOUR COINBASE ACCOUNT WITH GOOGLE AUTHENTICATOR OR AUTHY!

Read the full article here and vote if you like it:

https://medium.com/@CodyBrown/how-to-lose-8k-worth-of-bitcoin-in-15-minutes-with-verizon-and-coinbase-com-ba75fb8d0bac

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I agree with you...2 or even 3 ways security is the key...Google Authentication is good. Hackers are everywhere