Love and logins: Who gets custody of passwords in a breakup?


This handout image shows, from left, Ryan Cohen, his wife, Emily Taffel, and Taffel’s former boyfriend, Sam Rubman, on Feb 3, 2022, in Coral Springs, Florida. In the era of intense cybersecurity and calls for multifactor lockdown of all things digital, the three share several logins to streaming services. — Ryan Cohen via AP

NEW YORK: Emily Taffel didn’t pull the password plug when she divorced her first husband, and she didn’t cut off the boyfriend who followed. Now remarried with four stepchildren, she continues as a model of civility when it comes to exes and logins.

The 41-year-old in Coral Springs, Florida, and her first husband didn’t have kids, much money or own a house when they divorced. What they did have were subscriptions to Netflix and Hulu.


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