I was reusing the same password for everything for like 8 years

It hit me last month when I got a weird email from a site I barely used, asking me to confirm a password change I didn't request. I checked Have I Been Pwned and saw that old password was in a breach from 2019. I had to spend a whole weekend changing it on my bank, email, and like 40 other accounts. Now I use a password manager and it's so much easier. Anyone else have a wake-up call that finally got them to use unique passwords?

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dylan41311d agoMost Upvoted

My wake-up call was when my old WoW account got cleaned out. Someone sold all my epic gear for copper. That's when I finally started using different passwords for stuff.

the_robert11d ago

Wait, for COPPER? That's just adding insult to injury, man. They didn't even try to get a decent price for your stuff. That's like a personal attack on top of the theft. I'd be so mad. Honestly, that's a brutal way to learn the password lesson, but at least it finally got through.