Just realized I've been using the same main password for 8 years, and my password manager says it's been in 14 data breaches lol

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ward.anna1mo agoMost Upvoted

That password is basically public property at this point. The real question is how many of your accounts still use it. Time for a full reset everywhere.

phoenix_singh251mo agoMost Upvoted

Public property" is right, @ward.anna. It's wild how one leaked password can show up everywhere. I see it with my crew's old work logins for supplier sites they never updated. People just set it once and forget, whether it's for some pizza delivery app from 2018 or a forum for a TV show that got canceled. That "full reset everywhere" feels impossible because you don't even remember all the doors that key still opens.

nancy_wood5d ago

Public property" is exactly right, @ward.anna. It's not even funny how many places that password might still be active. @aaron880 hit the nail on the head too - you have to hunt them down like a detective. What I'd suggest is actually pulling up your browser's saved passwords list (if you've let it save any) and cross-referencing with the password manager's breach report. Then go through your email inbox for old account creation emails from like 2016 onward. It's a pain, but I've done it before with an old gaming account password that kept showing up in breaches. Make a list, change them one by one, and use unique passwords going forward - even if you store them in a notebook, beats having one key that opens everything.

aaron8801mo ago

How many of your other accounts are still tied to that old password? I had the same thing happen and found it on a bunch of old forum logins I forgot about. You really do need to hunt them all down and change them.