Google Yourself Like an Attacker
For $34.99, a private investigator once assembled a folder on an executive in under an hour. Home address with a satellite photo. Family names and employers. A personal cell number. The boat registration. And three old passwords from public breach dumps — one of them a single character away from his current corporate login.
Nothing in that folder was stolen. All of it was sitting in public, waiting to be collected.
That’s the uncomfortable part: every executive has a folder like this — the only question is whether the attacker assembles it before you’ve seen it yourself.
The move: spend twenty minutes searching yourself the way an attacker would. Your name plus your company. Your name plus your home city. Your personal email addresses through a breach-check service (haveibeenpwned.com is free). Then do the same for your spouse and kids — attackers routinely go through family, because family accounts are softer and lead to yours.
What you’ll probably find: an address you didn’t know was published, an old password you half-recognize, and a relative’s account that mentions more about your life than you would.
What it earns you: the target list for everything that comes next — what to take down, what to freeze, which passwords are burned. You can’t defend a surface you’ve never looked at.
This is one of 70 Monday Morning Moves in Too Boring to Attack: The Executive’s Guide to AI Innovation and Cyber Risk. Get the book →
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