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Even Password Manager Subscribers Reuse Passwords, Study Finds


An anonymous reader shares a report: It's not exactly breaking news that people reuse passwords, but you might expect password manager subscribers to avoid the practice. You'd be wrong, according to a new study. Dashlane's downer of a report draws on saved logins analyzed on-device by Dashlane's sof...

It finds dismally high percentages of password reuse worldwide. Another 15% rate as compromised, meaning those passwords have shown up in data breaches. The report, along with the Password Health score that Dashlane's software computes for individual users, emphasizes the longstanding problem of password reuse because that practice leaves its practitioners so vulnerable to getting hacked.Â

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