She pressed the button.
She never did throw it away.
The email arrived at 11:47 PM. “Your account has been accessed from an unrecognized device. Verify immediately.” The link looked real. The logo was perfect. But Priya had worked in IT long enough to know that perfect was often the first sign of a lie. hsbc secure key
The old HSBC Secure Key device sat in the bottom of Priya’s drawer, its LCD screen blank, its silver buttons dulled by five years of neglect. She’d almost thrown it away a dozen times, but something always stopped her. Sentiment, maybe. Or superstition. She pressed the button
She pressed.