What to do after hacker group may have stolen personal info? [Video]

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – Is damage control still possible after a group of hackers recently claimed to have stolen data from almost 3 billion people?

Cyber security expert David Malicoat says there are still ways that people can protect their data, despite the severity of the situation.

For starters, he strongly recommends to immediately start changing passwords for accounts holding onto sensitive data, especially if the password is already being used elsewhere.

“These threat actors know that people reuse their passwords, like ‘I use the same password on my bank, on my email, on my X, Y and Z.’ What they count on is, when they breach one of those lower ones, they have the password for that bank,” stated Malicoat in an interview with WBEN. “So we want different passwords for each one, and what using a password manager allows you to do is only have to remember one password. This password manager, …