#5 – Never email sensitive information (ever)
You should never send sensitive information like passwords, banking info, credit card numbers over email. Email is vulnerable and prone to hacking because a hacker has not just one, but Five access points with email:
- your computer/email account
- Your email server
- In transit (while the message is in transit between sender to receiver)
- Receiving email server
- Receivers computer/account
Email messages can be encrypted, however it requires exchanging security keys (the sender and receiver) in advance of communicating securely via email. Setup is generally too involved for most businesses and users to justify. Due to this, we’ve seen considerable adoption of hosted secure email solutions where the sender gives the receiver temporary (or permanent) access to an online portal they can log into to retrieve their message from your system.
But to keep it simple: do not share data or information over email that you wouldn’t want a hacker to access.