Imagine that you're using the same password for different accounts: banks, email, social media accounts, online shopping sites, and any other random websites that require passwords. The thing with reusing passwords is that it's a security disaster waiting to happen. That, or just keep reusing the same password for each login. So what does a mere human do? Start with something like "password123" and then just keep adding a number or a unique character every time you're prompted to update your password. That's a max of 270 unique characters you'd have to remember! Ideally, these passwords should also combine uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. In theory, this means you would have to memorize 27 passwords consisting of at least ten characters. Forty-two percent reuse passwords across accounts, and 17 percent of us recycle as few as two to five passwords for everything.Īccording to Google, "the average American has 27 online accounts that require passwords". Despite this, a 2020 survey from the credit-scoring company FICO found that only 23 percent of Americans use an encrypted password manager. More recent data breaches include McDonald’s, Peloton, and Volkswagen. From January to March of 2021, 51 million people had their data compromised in a breach, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit dedicated to helping victims of identity theft.
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