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Why You Need More Than One Password
As the internet grows, more and more people come online. Gone is the day where there was just one power site that you used and one password that you needed to remember. There are now so many great sites around, but what a vast amount of people are doing is literally using the same password on every single site. This is not only dangerous but you could potentially make a huge loss. If a hacker gets access to one of your passwords all they have to do is Google your name and see most of your online accounts. They will then be able to access a huge variety of different accounts and ruin your identity. Let's have a look at some of the accounts that the hackers may be able to get access too.
Banks
This would probably be the worst situation, could you imagine if your bank account got hacked and the hacker was able to see all of your account details and remove money from there. You may not think this happens, but UK and global online fraud is increasing by the day.
Sites and Profiles
Although this is not as extreme, it is still an invasion of your privacy, and once they get into your sites files they will be able to hurt your business. If they get into your profiles than this can again hurt you as you never know what confidential communication you may have in there.
Gambling
Online gambling, especially online poker has increased a huge amount and people have a lot of money stored in their gambling accounts. Again if you do not have a unique password in place it will be so easy for a hacker to log in a spend all of your accumulated funds.
There are many more sites that we can discuss, but what is the most important advice from all of this is that you need to set a unique password for each of your profiles and accounts. You should also remember that these need to be change quite often. I would ideally recommend changing them once every two weeks to be on the safe side. This way it will be more difficult for hackers to use things such as brute force.
Keep your passwords in a safe place, there is no way you are going to store them all in your mind, so try to only store the ones that you use on a regular basis.
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