

Your passwords need to be protected diligently. Think of passwords as an electronic “Power of Attorney.”Īnyone in possession of your passwords can make purchases, access your bank accounts, access or delete files backed up or stored online, change settings, even post libelous comments about others on your social media accounts.

That's a lot of unique accounts - each requiring a unique password that is strong enough to resist hacking. Increasingly, our lives are lived online: banking, shopping, donating, e-filing taxes, corresponding, posting on Facebook, etc.Īccording to Mozilla, the average person has 130 online accounts. Some of the material on this page has been moved to separate pages for multifactor authentication (MFA/2FA), password managers and LastPass (includes my reassessment after the breach).
