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Got caught using "Password123" for my bank account for 7 years

I was at a coffee shop in Denver last spring and my laptop got stolen. While waiting for the police report, I logged into my bank on my phone to freeze things. Then I saw my password was literally "Password123" and I had been using it since college. I felt like an idiot. The thief never got into anything because I had 2FA on, but it made me realize I was just lazy about security. How often do you guys actually update your old passwords?
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camerona79
My buddy Mike used "password1" for his email for like 10 years. Got hacked last summer and they locked him out of everything. Took him two weeks to get it back.
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ivan82
ivan826d ago
Did you have 2FA on the whole time?
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