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Vent: That $40 password manager felt like a waste until my old email got hit
I bought a year of a password manager for about $40 last fall and honestly thought it was just extra work. Then a few weeks ago, I got a bunch of alerts about someone trying to log into an old Yahoo account I still used for some things. Because the manager had made a unique, strong password for it, they couldn't get in. It would have been a real mess if that old account was a gateway to other stuff. Has anyone else had a close call that made a basic tool suddenly worth it?
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david7391d ago
Wait, have you ever had an old account actually tied to something like a credit card or bank alert? I think people underestimate how much leverage an old email can have if someone gets in and starts resetting passwords on other sites. My wife had a similar close call an old AOL account from college was linked to her PayPal and a couple store logins. It was a real eye opener how deep that trail went without even thinking about it.
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