My old roommate liked to do his work in the kitchen of our apartment because his room was by far the coldest. His laptop didn't pick up our wifi very well there though so he tended to use the unsecured "default" wifi of one our neighbors thinking it was just someone who didn't know how to set the security on his/her router. Of the course of the year he had several hundred dollars charged on his debit card. The bank was able to refund him each time, but it was still a huge inconvenience that he pinned on bad luck.
He told a more tech savvy friend of ours about the string of debit charges. Our friend was able to figure out that it was likely a key logger that was installed over the unsecured network. It picked up the debit card information whenever my roommate shopped somewhere online. Needless to say my roommate started doing his work on our apartment's slower, but secured, connection.
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