I keep seeing coworkers reuse the same password for 10+ accounts

Last week I watched a guy in our IT department type his work email password into a random survey site during lunch. I asked him about it and he said he uses the same 8 character password for everything since 2018. He even showed me his password list on a sticky note under his keyboard. I tried telling him about how one breach can leak all his accounts but he just shrugged it off. How do you get someone like that to actually care about their password habits?

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xena37321d ago

he just shrugged it off" ugh that's the worst. I had a friend who used the same password for her bank and her Taco Bell rewards account until someone logged into her bank and ordered like $200 worth of crunchwraps on her card. She changed everything that week lol.

tarar2721d ago

Actually the Taco Bell rewards account would probably just get their login info if the password was reused, not the bank account directly. That sounds like the bank login was the same password that got compromised somewhere else first. Either way it's a rough lesson to learn, but at least she finally changed everything.