Appreciation post for 2FA after my own password got leaked in 2018

I used the same password for everything for like 10 years. Then one day my Xbox account got logged into from Russia and I realized that password was on some dump from a forum I joined in 2007. That was the moment I finally set up two factor authentication on my email first, then every other site. Has anyone else had that rude wake up call from a breach you forgot about?

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nancy47527d ago

Isn't that a bit overkill for just a gaming account though?

nancybailey27d ago

God no, it's not overkill. I had a friend who thought the same thing and just used the same password for her gaming stuff and her email and bank. Then her Steam account got taken over and someone used the email to reset her PayPal password. They drained her account before she even woke up. Took her months to get that money back from the bank. She now has 2FA on everything including her Netflix account. After watching her go through that mess I set it up on everything too.