It’s Not If Your Email Gets Hacked, It’s When

Email breaches are inevitable. What matters isn’t whether a provider, or your own account, ever has a security incident. It’s how much damage is done when it happens.

Email is one of the oldest and most trusted tools on the internet. It connects family and friends, handles password resets, receives legal notices, manages finances and acts as digital proof of identity. Because it underpins almost everything online, it is also one of the most targeted systems there is. Reports from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and Verizon keep finding the same thing: stolen credentials and phishing are among the most common ways attackers get in, and email is where both of those land.