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Rant: I used the same password on 14 accounts until my Spotify got hijacked from a city I've never been to
Last month I got locked out of my Spotify and the login history showed a device in Lagos, Nigeria. My email password was the same as my Spotify password, so I panicked and started changing everything. Took me 3 hours to fix 14 accounts that all shared some version of my dog's name plus my birth year. I finally set up a password manager and Bitwarden flagged 11 of them as pwned. How do you guys handle the ones you can't change, like your old wifi router login?
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anna_shah911d ago
That line about "11 of them as pwned" made my stomach drop a little, because that was almost me. I did the exact same dog name plus birth year thing for years and just kept telling myself nobody would bother guessing it. Then my email got hit and I spent a whole weekend resetting stuff while my hands were shaking. You did the right thing moving to a manager, and honestly getting 14 accounts cleaned up in 3 hours is pretty fast. For the old router, I just log into the admin page from a wired connection and change the password there, since most routers let you do that even if the sticker is outdated. Just write the new one on a piece of tape under the router so you don't drive yourself crazy later.
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