Hackers don't guess passwords. They take the one you used on some random site in 2019 and try it on your email and bank. It works constantly.
A password manager remembers hundreds of unique passwords so you don't have to. Two-factor authentication means a stolen password alone is useless. These two things stop most account takeovers cold.
A forum, a shopping site, an old app. Your email + password leak into criminal databases along with billions of others.
Automated tools test your leaked password on Gmail, banks, Amazon, Netflix, everything. It's called credential stuffing, and it runs 24/7.
If it's the same password, they're in. Email is the jackpot: with your inbox, they reset every other account you own.
Malware harvests every password saved in your browser at once. About 1 in 5 break-ins uses stolen credentials.
Get a password manager (we set these up all the time). One strong master password, unique everything else.
Two-factor on email and bank first, then everything. An authenticator app beats text codes.
Check yourself at haveibeenpwned.com. See exactly which breaches leaked your info.
Use passkeys where offered. Nothing to steal, nothing to reuse.
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