I was at a coffee shop in Seattle and overheard two people talking about how they got locked out of their email for three days because they used the same password everywhere.

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Ugh, that is the worst feeling. I had the same thing happen with my old Twitter account years ago. A site I used got hacked, and because I used that password for everything, it was a total domino effect. Took me over a week to get everything sorted and changed. Have you started using a password manager yet?

jamie7705d ago

Actually, a password manager was the first thing I set up after my own mess.

alicehernandez5d ago

What about the recovery methods, though? Setting up a password manager is smart, but if you lose access to that master password, you're in a different kind of lockout. Makes you wonder if writing it down somewhere safe is actually the old-school backup we all need.