Taylor Swift tickets swiped! What it taught a dad about cybersecurity NBC Boston [Video]

You probably have your bank and investments accounts protected with two-factor authentication, but what about all of your other accounts?

A Newton, Massachusetts, man got a lesson in how important that security step is when he had thousands of dollars worth of concert tickets stolen. He reached out to our NBC10 Boston responds team for help.

Charles Nyman got his daughter the tickets to see Taylor Swift in Poland in August a big birthday present. He spent about $4,000 on them.

But a week before the concert, he got an email alert saying he had successfully transferred the tickets from his online account.

“I immediately logged in my StubHub account and the tickets were gone,” says Nyman. “I immediately contacted StubHub and they told me that you authorized the transfer to this individual. I told them that I had never heard of this individual and certainly did not authorize it. …