Prints can't be hacked

When Mat Honan's GMail, Twitter, and ICloud accounts were hacked he lost all the photos stored on his Mac, IPhone and IPad.

"My MacBook data — including those irreplaceable pictures of my family, of my child’s first year and relatives who have now passed from this life — weren’t the target. Nor were the eight years of messages in my Gmail account. The target was always Twitter. My MacBook data was torched simply to prevent me from getting back in."

Two factor authentication would have helped prevent his accounts from being compromised, but if your photos are important then you should make prints. Mat mentions the loss of these photos four times in his article, even asking the hacker if he feels remorse for causing them to be deleted. Obviously they were very important. Yes prints can be damaged or lost, but it's another preventive step in preserving the photos that are so important to you.