Residents in an Encino neighborhood are hoping for justice after the driver of a pickup truck crashed into a half dozen parked cars over the weekend and then fled the scene, leaving behind heavily damaged vehicles and big repair bills for the car owners.  

The Aug. 10 incident unfolded at around 5 a.m. on Killion Street between Zelzah and Newcastle avenues.  

In surveillance footage of the incident, the driver can be seen barreling down Killion Street when he collides with the first parked car, the impact lifting the passenger side wheels of the truck off the ground as it violently grinds down the row of cars.  

As the truck continues, the driver’s side wheels also bounce off the ground, the vehicle eventually coming to a stop after impact with yet another parked car.  

“We’re not sure if it’s an F150 or an F250, but one of the two came down this street,” one of the vehicle’s owners, who did not want to be identified, told KTLA’s Mary Beth McDade. “At a certain point, the driver seemed to lose control from the footage we’ve seen, and he started bouncing off the row of cars.”  

It was only three weeks ago that he and his wife purchased their red SUV, which sustained considerable damage in the hit-and-run crash.  

“He hit about five cars before he crashed on this red SUV over here and that’s when he just stopped bouncing,” he said. “He pushed that [car] kind of into the sidewalk and into the gray sedan in front of it.”  

In the footage, the driver, who is wearing long shorts and has what appears to be a ponytail, exits the vehicle and walks around the front of the truck to get a look at the damage before jumping back behind the wheel and leaving the area.  

“All five cars are heavily damaged,” the SUV owner added. “I don’t know if they’ve officially ruled them totaled yet, but they’re not drivable.”  

The couple lives down the street from where the crash occurred and were unaware that their SUV had been hit until several hours after the hit-and-run, when the wife had plans to go somewhere.  

“It was very upsetting,” she said. “It was devastating to come out here and see my car like that. It’s one of my worst nightmares, honestly, to lose my vehicle.”  

The couple filed a police report and placed flyers around the neighborhood in hopes that someone can identify the driver who caused the costly mayhem.  

“If anybody recognizes this person from the footage, contact somebody,” the man said. “If you see one of the flyers, contact the number or email address on that or the police.”  

While Monday’s 4.4. magnitude earthquake rattled the nerves of millions of people in Southern California, damage was thankfully minimal.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck at 12:20 p.m. about 2.5 miles south of Highland Park and just west of Pasadena, where city officials said the historic city hall building sustained a broken pipe.

Water was seen cascading off the City Hall’s roof as people evacuated the building. Employees were eventually allowed back into the building just over an hour after the quake initially struck, the City of Pasadena said.

Pasadena Fire Department crews surveyed the city and found no additional damage other than the burst pipe.

There were no reports of damage or injuries elsewhere in SoCal immediately following the earthquake.

Even if you’re using strong unique passwords, there’s still a chance a hacker could trick you into sharing one of them or a data breach could expose them.

That’s why you need to enable two-factor authentication on your most important online accounts, including email, financial and social media.

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“I think we all have the tools, I don’t know if we all know how to use them as best as we can be,” said Thorin Klosowski, a privacy and security activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

“I do a lot of our how-to guides guiding people towards best practices and security and privacy and making sure that you are as safe online as you can be,” explained Klosowski.

To protect yourself, there are a few important things you can do.

One of the top recommendations for keeping your accounts, and data, secure is to use a complex, unique password for every website.

Apple is set to make this process easier with the introduction of a dedicated Passwords app in iOS 18.

“Hopefully it’ll get more people using them,” said Klosowski.

On Android, you can use Google Password Manager or a third-party app like Bitwarden, which is free.

But the second key thing to do is turn on two-factor authentication.

“It’s a little like odd to get used to, but it is very helpful even if you are using unique passwords everywhere,” said Klosowski.

So even if someone got your password, they would still need to enter a secondary, randomly generated code before they could login.

This is often texted to your phone, but the most secure option is to use a two-factor app.

Duo Mobile and 2FAS are popular options. Google and Microsoft also make two-factor apps.

“Right now two-factor authentication is one of the best things we have to protect our accounts,” said Klosowski.

If your password is the door handle, two factor is a deadbolt for your accounts.

It might take a bit to set up and it might make logging in take a tiny bit longer, but it’s all worth the extra protection.