Your Inbox Is a Security Risk — Here’s Proof

Описание: While on vacation in North Carolina, returning guest Chris Adkins lived through every cybersecurity pro’s worst nightmare — his Gmail got hacked. And the attackers didn’t stop there: they pivoted straight into his Coinbase account, armed with enough personal answers to bypass modern protections.

How?
A single ancient recovery question from over a decade ago — the kind everyone forgets about — was still active on his account. And the attackers found it.

This episode dives into:
• How Chris got social-engineered by someone who sounded exactly like Google
• Why legacy account settings are one of the top attack vectors
• Why recovery questions are a massive modern security risk
• How attackers pivot from compromised Gmail → crypto → everything else
• Why Frank has 100,000+ unread emails (seriously)
• How Gmail’s “mark all as read” really works (and the 48-hour experiment)
• How cleaning up your inbox is basically digital threat-hunting
• Why old accounts = more risk than old passwords
• And… Frank’s dad is still on his credit report somehow???

This is one of the most relatable real-world compromise breakdowns we’ve ever done.

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🕒 Chapter Breaks

00:00 – Chris tells the story: hacked on vacation
00:15 – Attackers move from Gmail → Coinbase
00:28 – The fake Google call that almost worked
00:40 – “You have one full Bitcoin” — the moment Chris knew it was a scam
01:10 – The hidden recovery question that opened the door
01:35 – Legacy account settings: the forgotten threat
01:55 – Frank’s 100,000+ unread emails confession
02:15 – Gmail’s “Mark All as Read” experiment
02:35 – Cold storage? How Google processes old mail
03:00 – Frank compares inbox cleanup to fixing a credit report
03:20 – Why recovering from account compromise takes days
03:35 – Who is actually most at risk?

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