{"id":14503,"date":"2026-07-23T05:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/first-person-identity-theft-story-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:03:26","slug":"first-person-identity-theft-story-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/first-person-identity-theft-story-html\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Person Identity Theft Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>First-Person Identity Theft Story<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Harrowing <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/cybersecurity\/articles\/stranger-used-one-text-message-140003797.html\">story<\/a> of an identity theft victim.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the person made a mistake\u2014they gave the scammer a two-factor authentication code that allowed the scammer to take over their email address. But the real story here is how, for many of us, the security of most of our accounts hangs on the security of our email accounts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/07\/first-person-identity-theft-story.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-Person Identity Theft Story Harrowing story of an identity theft victim. Yes, the person made a mistake\u2014they gave the scammer a two-factor authentication code that allowed the scammer to take over their email address. But the real story here is how, for many of us, the security of most of our accounts hangs on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,2607,388,2496,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-14503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-identity-theft","category-social-engineering","category-two-factor-authentication","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}