Another way your making all your accounts easily hacked, is by being connected to an insecure wifi, or connected to a wifi with an easily hacked password.
Use free public wifi at your own risk. Anyone connected to the same wifi as you with malicious intent can sniff the traffic over the network and have access to any account you log in to. Facebook, youtube, online banking... anything. Only access accounts you care about on wifi networks you trust.
DO NOT use WEP for your router security, use WPA or preferably WPA2. WEP keys are extremely easy to hack.
If your router has WPS enabled (wireless protected setup), DISABLE IT. An exploit allows WPS to be cracked pretty quickly allowing the attacker to figure out your WPA2 key.
If you think someone on your network may be trying to access your accounts, browse using HTTPS. Most popular websites support HTTPS (facebook, gmail, etc) and this prevents most network sniffing applications fail to retrieve your account info. You can use the HTTPS version of a website simply by replacing HTTP to HTTPS in the url. Example: https://facebook.com instead of http://facebook.com. Some hacks out there can redirect you from the secure HTTPS to HTTP, so if you're onsure of the network you're connected to, stay aware of the URL.
Don't buy things online while connected to a public network. Just don't do it.
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