It’s amazing how much of our life is online these days.

We have access to so many critical accounts at the touch of our fingertips — but that also means that they can be at the touch of someone else’s fingertips if you are not careful!

Recently, I had my eBay account password compromised somehow. Even though I am pretty careful about phishing schemes, they got me somehow. So I had to reset my account password and grab control of my account again.

That got me thinking about how many different login’s I have with the same password.

Although I use a couple of different passwords that are pretty unique (not the usual passwords using names, or birthdates or anniversaries, etc), I realized that if one of my important account passwords were discovered, they could semi-easily get into several other accounts if they knew where to try.
Do you have the same online login user id + password combination for multiple websites? Like your bank, PayPal, eBay, Gmail or Y!Mail, etc, etc?
Here’s a great tip for creating unique passwords for each and every site you use in a way where you won’t have to keep using tons of post-it notes to remember them all.

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