Think of the Solution, Not the Problem

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I saw that quote somewhere online today and I wish I had heard it three days ago. My daughter kept telling me to chill because I was freaking out.. Actually, I wish the people at my cell phone provider had thought to tell us to change all passwords. As I wrote in another post, my husband's cell phone was shut down as someone transferred his account to another provider. First thing you should do when this happens is CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS, not only for your cell phone provider but for your banks if you do any banking online. The hackers took almost $6,000 from my husband in e-transfrers all to the same person (so hopefully they can get to THEM). The bank will give my husband the money back because he had no phone during the time those transfers took place and we have a lot of proof of that since I spent all weekend on the phone trying to get this resolved. I came up with the solution, but I only wish I had thought of it sooner. Now my husbands accounts and credit/debit cards are all frozen. He has no access to his money for the time being. He is flying home today and he was asked to pay for his luggage but he had no way to pay them because they wouldn't accept cash. Oh well, luggage checked for free! So, please, everyone, change your passwords to all your accounts regularly. Don't wait until something happens. In our case it was our phone and it never occurred to us that our banking information would be accessed. I have heard this advice (change your passwords regularly) all the time and never really heeded the advice. I sure as heck am now!