Thanks for sharing your experience @bitrocker2020
It always "hits" so much more and become such a more realistic threat when it does happened to someone you personally know.
After reading your post, I came to realization that one of the problems you've faced was related to panic mode. Which may paralize many people.
Perhaps it would be a good idea, to come up with plan of what we need to do if we're ever face similar problem. We surely won't prepare ourselfs for all possible scenarios, however I believe that mentally such an exercise would allow us to be prepared. At least to some certain degree.
Being able to manage panic can be a game changer. Wouldn't you agree?
Also I was wondering, if using VPN would potentially help to stay safe from being targetted? What's your opinion?
Yours,
Piotr
Its a better idea to plan for securing your accounts to avoid getting hack.
VPN is good to avoid detection which could lead to serious problems like a DDOS atk on your IP ( among a few ). There are some VPNs which you should avoid especially the free ones as it does not secure you in any way as I could place an ethereal trace on your connection and start capturing packets which you send thru my "free VPN".
I was actually thinking about checking out NordVPN. Do you have any opinion about this one?
have not tried it out yet so wont be able to comment much on it however if you google it ... this is what i got
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/