[HIB]Password reuse opens email accounts to abuse

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Security vendor BitDefender has found more than a quarter of a million email addresses, usernames and passwords circulating freely in online resources such as blogs, Google Docs, wikis, forums and torrents. What makes it worse is that among the exposed Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, 75% used the same login credentials as the corresponding email account. Given that most people don't change their passwords frequently - 87% of the accounts could be accessed using the exposed credentials - using the same password for multiple accounts increases the risk of broader compromise. If obtaining one password makes it easier to guess the login details for other accounts operated by the same individual, the bad guys get a head start.

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