{"id":10830,"date":"2018-06-21T04:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T04:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=10830"},"modified":"2018-09-04T07:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T07:57:29","slug":"2018-07-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-07-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Safe on the Internet: My Experience with Identity Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Matt Courtney<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>July 22, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What could happen when hackers break into some of your online accounts and try to steal your identity? That\u2019s exactly what happened to HCSV member Matt Courtney a few months ago when hackers hacked into his email and his phone account. He will tell the story of what happened, things he did right and things he did wrong. Then, Matt will go over what you can do to secure your online accounts and avoid getting hacked.<\/p>\n<p>Matt has worked as a software engineer for over 15 years (and probably should have known better than to leave his accounts unsecured). He is an atheist, skeptic, and a member of the board of the Humanist Community of Silicon Valley. You have probably seen Matt running the video camera at the Sunday Forums.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/287792781\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/287792781\">Staying Safe on the Internet: My Experience with Identity Theft &#8211; Matt Courtney<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/251979365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Courtney July 22, 2018 What could happen when hackers break into some of your online accounts and try to steal your identity? That\u2019s exactly what happened to HCSV member Matt Courtney a few months ago when hackers hacked into his email and his phone account. He will tell the story of what happened, things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-07-22\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Staying Safe on the Internet: My Experience with Identity Theft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10955,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions\/10955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}