Cybersecurity experts warn: This common email habit is a gift to hackers

# Why Using Your Email as Your Username Is Risky Using your email address to sign into everything—shopping sites, banks, social media—creates a single weak point that hackers can exploit to access multiple parts of your life at once. If someone gains access to your email, they can reset passwords, intercept security codes, and read sensitive communications with your doctor, accountant, or bank. Making your email harder to guess and protecting it with strong security measures is now more important than ever.