35% of Gen Z said they never or rarely update passwords after a data breach affecting one of their accounts, according to Bitwarden. Only 10% reported always updating compromised passwords. 38% of Gen Z and 31% of Millennials only change a single character or simply recycle an existing password. 79% of Gen Z admit password reuse is risky, yet 59% recycle an existing password when updating accounts with companies that disclose data breaches. 55% of … More → The post People know password reuse is risky but keep doing it anyway appeared first on Help Net Security.

  • kooks_only@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah I do the same. Want me to make a secure password? Let me do 100 characters including spaces without capitalization, numbers or symbols. Let me pick 10 random words and use that as a password.

    Can’t wait for passkeys to be commonplace.