Easy for me to be a smartass in hindsight, but I can't resist:

> Unfortunately for Griffin, years ago he used Google Photos to store an image of the secret seed phrase that was protecting his cryptocurrency wallet.

Um, duh...

> "[...] I put my seed phrase into a phishing site, and that was it.”

>Almost immediately, all of the funds he was planning to save for retirement and for his children’s college fund were drained from his account.

Um, duh. First mistake to put all eggs in a single basket. Second mistake, this basket was a cryptocurrency. Third mistake, pasting the secret key to that _anywhere_.