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A pentester told me my passwords were trash and showed me why

I had a friend who does penetration testing look at my password setup last year. He said using 'Summer2023!' with a couple numbers wasn't cutting it. He ran my email through some breach databases and found 4 sites I used that password on got hacked. Now I use a password manager and each account has a random 16 character string. Has anyone else had someone tear apart their security habits like that?
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cora_scott77
Nah, Summer2023 is pretty weak honestly.
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the_tara
the_tara10d ago
At least you didn't learn this lesson the hard way in a data breach.
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