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Rant: Friend said "just use the same password everywhere, it's fine"
He lost his email account after a data breach at some gaming site and now I'm helping him reset 40 accounts, has anyone else had to clean up after bad password advice?
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the_kai10h ago
You said he lost the email after a breach at a gaming site - was that the one password he used for everything, or did he have a few different ones that just happened to repeat? Because I'm curious if he literally had the same password on all forty of those accounts before it happened. In my experience, when people say "just use the same password" they usually don't think about how one leak takes down your banking, your work stuff, and your personal accounts all at once. Did he at least have two-factor on the email itself, or was that a total wipeout from the start?
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