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Who are the worst password offenders of 2020?
2020-12-04 05:30

"Just because more of our lives are now online doesn't mean the digital world has become safer-everyone needs to remember proper password hygiene and implement cybersecurity-related best practices," said Dashlane's Head of IT, Jay-Leaf Clark.

Repeat 2017 Worst Password Offender and world's largest credit bureau Experian suffered a major breach of its South African branch after handing over personal information to a client impersonator.

Learn from the mistakes of this year's worst password offenders-including the President of the United States, who allegedly used the all-too-easy-to-guess maga2020! as his Twitter password-and implement the following best practices to stay off future lists.

Repeating the same password across your accounts is a lot like using the same key for your house or your car.

A password manager is literally the only way to safely and conveniently manage wildly complicated and unique passwords for an unlimited number of accounts, while providing automatic logins and secure autofill of personal and payment information.


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