Panic cold as ice hit him. He tried to shut the laptop, but the fans were screaming now, a high-pitched whine of a processor working overtime. When he finally forced a hard reboot and logged back in from a library computer, he found his email password changed and a series of "unauthorized login" alerts from his social accounts.

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