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PSA: I thought a password manager was overkill until my email got hit
For years I just used a few simple passwords for everything, thinking 'who would bother with my stuff?' Then last Tuesday my main email got locked out. The recovery showed login attempts from a place in Romania. It took me two full days to get back in and secure everything. I finally set up Bitwarden and it made me realize how weak my old system was. Has anyone else had a close call that finally pushed them to use a password manager?
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irismartinez3mo ago
That Romanian login attempt is a classic sign of a credential stuffing attack. They use passwords leaked from other sites, not guesswork. A manager stops that because every password is unique.
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the_tara3mo ago
Yeah that "who would bother with my stuff" thought is so real, I used to say the same thing. Getting locked out of my old gaming account was my wake up call, total nightmare. Now I can't imagine going back to remembering them all.
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My cousin lost access to her whole photo library because she forgot the password to her old email. Took her weeks to get it back from support, and she missed a bunch of family event pictures. It was a mess.
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