Security News > 2021 > April > How password anxiety is impacting individuals and organizations
A report released Thursday by password manager LastPass looks at how anxiety over passwords is having a snowball effect.
Otherwise, a hacker who obtains your password for one site can easily compromise other accounts that use the same password.
Among the respondents, 70% said that they feel they have too many different passwords to remember, prompting the average person to use the same password for six different accounts, both personal and work-related.
Some 65% of the respondents admitted that they experience panic or anxiety when they discover they don't have a stored password for a website they need to use.
All of these obstacles lead to something LastPass has dubbed password anxiety, a condition that not only affects individuals but organizations.
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