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My friend told me to stop using the same password everywhere and I didn't listen
Honestly, my friend who works in IT kept telling me for like a year to use a password manager. He said 'if one site gets hacked, they have the key to everything.' I figured my passwords were fine, a mix of my dog's name and some numbers. Then last month, my old gaming account from 2012 got breached. I got a weird email about a login from a city I've never been to. Within a day, someone tried to use that same password and email combo to get into my main email and my bank app. I had to spend a whole weekend on the phone with customer support and changing every single password, which was over 50 accounts. Now I use Bitwarden and it feels way safer. Has anyone else had a domino effect like that from one old account getting popped?
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susana664d agoMost Upvoted
Ugh, that domino effect is the worst feeling. I got hit through an old forum account too. What finally stopped it was putting a totally random, crazy long password on my main email that I don't know by heart, and locking it down with an authenticator app. I use a password manager for everything now, and I went through and turned on two-factor anywhere it was offered. It was a huge project but it's been totally quiet since.
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logan2054d ago
Man that's rough. Did you have two-factor set up on your main email at least, or did they get all the way in? I've heard that's the real killer, when they get your email and can reset everything else.
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kim1884d ago
Yeah, I learned that the hard way too. I didn't have 2FA on my main email back then, and they just cleaned me out. What finally worked was switching to a password manager for everything and using an authenticator app, not texts, for the codes. It's a pain to set up, but once they got my email that first time, what else are you supposed to do?
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