See why one password is the risk
See how one shared password spreads, and which account to change first.
The risk is rarely a short password. It is the same one opening your email, your store and your bank.
When any one company is broken into, its list of passwords gets tried everywhere else.
Key points
- A repeated password turns one company’s loss into every account you own
- Give your email its own password, used nowhere else
What to remember
- Whoever can read your email can reset every account you own.
- Your email password is the one protecting all the others.
Try this
Change one password this week: the email one. Three unrelated words and a number.
Practice: See why one password is the risk. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.