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The worst week for password breaches I've ever had
Last month I had a brutal stretch where three of my old accounts got popped in one week. First my gaming account from 2019 got hit, then my old email I barely use, then a forum I hadn't logged into in years. Turned out I was reusing the same password from like 2016 across all of them. The scary part was some hacker in Russia posted my credentials on a paste site and I only found out because a buddy sent me a screenshot. I spent a whole Sunday changing every password I own and finally set up a password manager. Has anyone else had a week like that where old accounts came back to bite them?
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shane_ross15d ago
That old password reuse always comes back to haunt you eventually. Your story is pretty much why I finally gave in and got a password manager myself after ignoring the advice for years. Take this as a cheap lesson learned before something really important gets compromised.
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