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The moment I stopped reusing passwords after my email got hit
I got a notification from Have I Been Pwned that my email was in a breach from 2017, and it took me seeing all 47 compromised accounts linked to the same password to finally sign up for a password manager last week, anyone else have that wake up call happen from a specific site breach?
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oliver24221d ago
Sat down to check my bank account one morning and saw a charge for plane tickets to a country I've never even visited. That was the moment I realized someone had my debit card info from a sketchy website I used years ago. Took me three days on the phone with the bank to get my money back, and I still get nervous typing in my card number anywhere. Been slowly switching everything over to a password manager too, but honestly the whole thing made me paranoid about every little login I have.
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nora_barnes21d ago
God that's AWFUL. Plane tickets of all things, what a cruel twist. Reminds me of the time I found a charge for a bunch of those tiny plastic toy soldiers on my credit card, thirty bucks worth of random army men shipped to an address two states over. The bank lady actually laughed and said "at least they have good taste in hobbies." Took me two weeks to get sorted because they kept saying it was a "small transaction" and not urgent. Now I check my account every single morning like it's a ritual, even if nothing bad ever happens again.
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kevin_roberts4117d ago
The "plane tickets to a country I've never even visited" line from @oliver242 hit close to home. I read somewhere that banking sites are actually some of the worst for reusing passwords because people treat them like a vault when they're really just another login. Saw a breach report that said over 60 percent of people use the same password for their email and their bank, which is basically handing over the keys. That 2017 breach did the same thing to me, taught me that "unique password" doesn't mean a variation with one number at the end. Now I treat every login like it's gonna get leaked tomorrow, because it probably will.
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