5 ways to make your email safer in case of a hack attack

Email accounts are the gateway to more important accounts (banks, brokers).

Use a different email account for social things and financial things. Use a different, random, longer (20-50 characters), passwords for every online account. If you can type the password easily, you've already failed. Use a password manager like LastPass or KeePaxx/KeePassX to manage these different accounts. These tools prevent you from having to type a password again - except to access the password manager. For really important accounts, use a random userid too. If you know your userid for the bank or brokerage, you've already failed.

So - at a minimum, we all need 4 different email accounts. 1) Social stuff, family, friends, FB, Tweeter ... 2) Work 3) Low value purchase accounts - Amazon, online retailers, etc. 4) High value financial accounts - banks, brokerage, retirement.

Try using a password manager for a week and you'll be sold.

If you really want to help secure more of your accounts, get something like a Yubikey-neo which supports 2FA and can make accessing your smartphone (NFC) and online accounts even more secure.

BTW, I work in enterprise IT security.

2-step authentication

Swiss based ProtonMail is a 2-step that works for me.