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How much are you willing to pay to recover your Instagram account?
Do you imagine opening your Twitter account one day and realizing you’ve been hacked?
Nowadays a super complex password is not enough to avoid being hacked. In fact, most of the time your password is not guessed by trying until it works, a.k.a brutal force.
Phishing or just social engineering is the most common way to gain access to your account. Believe it or not, most of the time you are the one that opens the door.

If a hacker gains access to your Twitter account and notices you are an influencer and have many followers, he will probably ask you for money to recover your account.

Two-factor authentication is a good way to protect your accounts. It’s kind of a standard approach that many apps support nowadays, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
This way you will need more than your password to enter your account.

For those that are familiar with tokens, two-factor authentication is pretty similar. If you want to send money from your bank account, depending on the amount and the nature of the transaction, your bank will ask you for a token to complete the action

Two-factor authentication is also known as two-step authentication which means, two actions from you will be necessary to gain access to your account.