My friend the IT guy told me to use a password manager and I laughed at him

This was like 3 years ago. He kept bugging me about it and I was like "I can remember passwords just fine" lol. Then last year I got hit with one of those credential stuffing attacks. Someone got into my email because I used the same password for a cooking forum and my main account. Lost a week trying to fix everything. Finally caved and got a password manager. Still using it. Has anyone else had that moment where you realized you were wrong about something privacy related?

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elizabeth_ramirez26d ago

Three different passwords for three different sites and I still thought I was being smart about it. That cooking forum story hit close to home because I had the same situation with a gardening site I used once and forgot about. Someone got into my PayPal through that same weak link and it took me three days to sort out the mess with my bank. I was so smug about remembering everything too, like it was some kind of bragging right or something. Now I just let the app do the work and honestly it feels better not having to play memory games with my own security.

joel_young26d ago

Got locked out of my own email for three hours once because I tried the "clever" route and used variations of the same word.