We all have dozens of online accounts. All of them require a password. Complex and unique. Password re-use is a huge problem with large data breaches becoming more and more common these days, with billions of data records lost or stolen since 2013.
Earlier this year hackers were passing around a gargantuan, unprecedented collection of 2.2 billion unique usernames and associated passwords.
With such a huge number of data breaches, do you think that there’s a slight chance at least one of your accounts was among them?
If anybody tried to log in to your account before you had a chance to change your password, the only thing that would save you would be two factor authentication ( 2FA ).
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