Security News > 2020 > February > Credential exposure report: Poor password habits still pose a serious threat

Almost a third of internet users affected by data breaches last year had reused a password in some form.

"Our data shows that consumers are still not changing their poor password habits, yet we know they're holding organizations accountable for their security." said David Endler, chief product officer for SpyCloud.

"Criminals are still using passwords they stole in 2012 to attack and take over accounts today. Companies need to guide users to set better passwords at the time of account creation and they need to help users maintain strong, uncompromised passwords whenever their credentials are exposed in a breach anywhere in the world."

Despite the problem of password fatigue and reuse coming into clearer focus over the past few years, little has changed in the world's most popular passwords.

It is increasingly up to organizations to comply with NIST's password guidelines, which recommend checking user passwords for those that have exposed bee in previous breach corpuses, as well as commonly used or easy-to-guess passwords.

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