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Rant: Password reuse finally bit me after 15 years of laziness
I used the same password for everything since like 2008. Email, banking, forums, even my work login. I figured nobody would care about my accounts anyway. Then last month someone got into my old Neopets account and used it to send spam to everyone on my friends list. That was embarrassing enough, but then they used the same password to get into my PayPal and tried to send $200 to themselves. I only caught it because my bank texted me about the unusual purchase. So now I'm going through every single account changing passwords. Using a password manager now and honestly it's way less annoying than I thought. The resetting everything part is the worst though. Has anyone else had to do this cleanup after getting hit with reused passwords?
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