Do you use the same password on all your online accounts? If a cybercriminal cracks your password, they could get access to all your accounts like social media, banking and email.
Weak passwords, liked Password1, your date of birth or dog’s name, are easy for cybercriminals to guess – there’s even software that guesses billions of passwords per second! If you’re using the same password (or a minor variation) on multiple accounts, such as banking, email and social media, a cybercriminal can access all of them by cracking just one password! Once into your accounts the cybercriminal may then steal your identity, money and commit other cybercrimes.
Over 8 billion accounts and over half a billion passwords have been exposed in data breaches. You can check if your credentials, such as email addresses and passwords, have been exposed in a data breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com. If your personal information has been exposed, take action such as changing your passwords straight away.
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