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Hacked? We'll walk you through it — calmly, step by step.
Take a breath. Tell us what happened and get a calm, step-by-step recovery plan — written for humans, not security experts.
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What happened?
Pick one or moreBuilt by Travis Barlow — 26 years in cybersecurity, 600+ incident-response engagements.
Founder of AtlSecCon, Atlantic Canada's largest cybersecurity conference. HackFirstAid exists because most cyber tools are written for security teams — and most victims aren't on one. No account required. Privacy-friendly analytics only — no personal data leaves your device.
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A recovery story
“Someone got into our bookkeeper's email, changed a supplier's banking details on an invoice, and we wired $38,000 to the wrong account. We called our bank within the hour of noticing, locked down the mailbox and reported it to the Anti-Fraud Centre, and the bank froze most of it before it moved. Now every change to payment details gets a phone call, no exceptions.”
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By the numbers
Why this matters
- 1 in 3
- Americans report being a victim of identity theft
- $12.5B
- Reported losses to internet crime in 2023
- 3 months
- Median time to discover identity theft
Source: FTC Consumer Sentinel
Source: FBI IC3 Annual Report
Source: BJS / FTC