CBC News reports on why users continue to fall victim to online scams and phishing attacks despite constant warnings. They report the cause as being linked to the ease of online sharing thanks in large part to social media platforms, favoring immediate reaction rather than verifying the truth, and to basic human nature. Jaigris Hodson, an assistant professor and head of the Interdisciplinary Studies program at Royal Roads University in Victoria, warns "the systems that hackers use to infect your computer often rely primarily on psychological tricks — that is, tricking people into clicking on a particularly compelling link." The article cites a 2017 Verizon report that found that 80 percent of hacking-related breaches leveraged passwords and that 1 in 14 was tricked into opening an attachment or clicking a link. 
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