Tried a password manager after years of reusing the same passwords

I finally switched to Bitwarden last month after getting locked out of my bank account for the third time - the difference is night and day. Anyone else dragged their feet on this and regretted not doing it sooner?

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blake_bell2921d ago

Oh man, I feel this so hard! I was the king of using "Password123" for everything until I got hacked on three different sites in one week. That was my wake up call honestly. Now I'm one of those people who gets annoyed when a site won't let me use my password manager auto-fill. It's crazy how much stress just disappears when you let a computer handle remembering all that nonsense for you.

uma_johnson21d ago

Wait, THREE sites in one week? That's wild! I mean I knew people got hacked but that many at once sounds like a nightmare. I bet you were just sitting there checking your email and saw like five different password reset notifications all at once. How did you even handle that without losing your mind? I would have been so frustrated I probably would have just deleted all my accounts and started over. But hey, at least it forced you to get serious about password managers, right? Silver linings and all that.

simons2820d ago

Honestly though is it really that big of a deal? I mean I've been using the same three passwords for years and nothing's ever happened to me.