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Sensitive information is apparently hard to keep that way these days. It seems as if there’s a new hacking scandal every few weeks, leading folks to wonder if anything can ever be secure. However, these incidents should also make us smarter as consumers. Let’s go over some of the financial lessons that some of the more prolific recent hacker events have taught us.
1. Keep your credit cards separated. Target’s data breach during the 2013 holiday shopping season was brutal. The cheap-chic discounter initially reported that as many as 40 million customers had their credit and debit card information swiped. A few weeks later it revealed that a new group of 70 million customers might have also had their card data lifted.
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