Some sage security advice after Radiohead’s unreleased music hack

Bad news: Radiohead was hacked.
Last week, a hacker stole the band’s lead singer Thom Yorke’sprivate minidisk archive from the band’s third album and subsequent major worldwide hit, “OK Computer.” The hacker demanded $150,000 or they’d release it to the public.
Stuck between a ransom and a hard place, Radiohead released the tapes themselves.
The recordings were “never intended for public consumption” and “only tangentially interesting,”