My password manager saved me after a data breach at work last Tuesday

I got an email from my boss saying our company database got hit by a phishing attack. Turns out 200 employee logins were leaked on a dark web forum. My password manager had me set up with unique 16-character passwords for everything, so my accounts were fine. A coworker who reused passwords lost access to his personal email and bank. Have any of you had to explain to family why they need to stop reusing passwords?

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schmidt.grant2mo ago

You ever try explaining to your mom that "password123" isn't cutting it anymore? I had to sit my sister down after she used the same password for her Netflix account and her online banking. She looked at me like I was speaking another language.

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grant_perry3mo ago

Just a heads up, that was a phishing attack that got your coworker, not a data breach on the company database.

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