I woke up this morning to a horrifying email from Netflix: my account had been hacked.

Someone had weaseled their way in while I slept peacefully and changed the account email.

I was shocked as I had taken all the right precautions not shared or reused passwords, etc.

Give Netflix your phone number to REALLY secure your account

but then discovered an annoyingly simple way I couldve prevented it.

So let me share it with you and save you the pain.

When I got the notification, I immediately contacted Netflix support, who helped me out with the recovery.

Netflix lets you add phone number for additional verification during account recovery

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But theres a really simple way to protect yourself from this: add your phone number.

That’s one heck of a mixed bag.

He likes to say “Bleh.

That’s one heck of a mixed bag.

He likes to say “Bleh.”

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