Time to reset those passwords

[DaveB]

Millions of hacked LinkedIn IDs advertised 'for sale' - BBC News

A hacker is advertising what he says is more than one hundred million LinkedIn logins for sale.
The IDs were reportedly sourced from a breach four years ago, which had previously been thought to have included a fraction of that number.
At the time, the business-focused social network said it had reset the accounts of those it thought had been compromised.
LinkedIn now plans to repeat the measure on a much larger scale.

[SimonMac]

Millions of hacked LinkedIn IDs advertised 'for sale' - BBC News

One of the benefits of using a password management app, regular prompts me to change passwords, uses a very complex one, and a different password for each site.

I use 1password

[TestMangler]

One of the benefits of using a password management app, regular prompts me to change passwords, uses a very complex one, and a different password for each site.

I use 1password

I normally use Password1

[stek]

I use yellow post-it's under my keyboard. No-one'll ever think of looking there.

[Uncle Albert]

I use yellow post-it's under my keyboard. No-one'll ever think of looking there.

Realistically it is quite safe there. No hacker is going to risk breaking into your house for one password when they can nab a million off LinkedIn.

[ctdctd]

I use yellow post-it's under my keyboard. No-one'll ever think of looking there.

You might be righter than you think..

Many moons ago, I was complaining about my pens being stolen and a fellow contractor suggested leaving them under my keyboard when away from my desk.

He was right - never lost a pen since. Now to find some post-it notes..........

[FatLazyContractor]

One of the benefits of using a password management app, regular prompts me to change passwords, uses a very complex one, and a different password for each site.

I use 1password

So you let an app manage all your passwords for you?

[stek]

It's best to have all your passwords the same one cos if you have more there's more chance of a hacker guessing one of them.

Simples!

[SimonMac]

I normally use Password123

FTFY

[SimonMac]

So you let an app manage all your passwords for you?

Yep, locally stored fully encrypted, means o only have to remember one pass phrase then the app handles the 20 digit complex password with upper lower numbers and special characters.

I assume you use post it notes?