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Got called out for reusing passwords and it stung
A buddy who works in IT security saw me log into my bank account and asked if I used that password anywhere else. I said probably yeah and he just stared at me. He pulled up haveibeenpwned dot com right there and showed me my email got leaked in like 3 different data breaches from 2019 alone. That was two years ago and now I use a password manager with unique 16 character passwords for every site. Has anyone else had a friend call them out on something like this and actually change their habits?
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robinson.hannah25d ago
My friend from college who does cybersecurity basically did the same thing to me. He made me check my email and I had over 20 exposed passwords from different breaches. The one that really got me was seeing my email in the LinkedIn breach from way back. I dumped all my old passwords that night and now I use Bitwarden with randomly generated 20 character passwords for everything. Did it take you a while to stop forgetting your master password?
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jamesm3825d ago
Seeing those breach alerts really makes you realize how everything online is just held together with duct tape and hope.
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