TIL my password manager flagged 27 reused passwords across my accounts

I finally ran the security audit tool in Bitwarden last night and it showed I had the same password on 27 different logins, from my old forum account to my cloud storage. It mattered because one of those forums got breached last year, which means all those other accounts were basically open if that password got out. How do you guys keep track of which passwords are truly unique without getting overwhelmed?

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xena8731mo ago

Yeah, the part about actually going to each site is the real work... I had the same scary number pop up. What I did was pick one or two accounts a day to fix, starting with the most important ones like email and banking. I'd let the manager make a crazy new password, save it, and then just deal with that one site's password change page. It took a couple weeks but it didn't feel like a huge chore all at once.

kai_brown231mo ago

Let the manager make a crazy new password" is the easy part.

the_thea1mo ago

Oh man, that's a WAKE UP call. But honestly, the manager DOES the keeping track for you. You just have to let it make and save the new ones. The hard part is actually going to each site and changing them.