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Offline Ilwrath

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Another thing to note is that if you used the same password for other things, change those right away and destroy that password.  A while back a comparison was made between several leaked password lists and it was found that something like 83% of credentials were shared across multiple services... including the email account to which the other accounts were linked.


Yup.  Sound security advice here.  Don't reuse passwords in this fashion, folks.  

I just noticed I had accidentally set the same username/password combo for linkedin and it's associated email address.  OOoops.  Just changed them both (to different things, like they should have been in the first place).  So while it sucks that the list was leaked, it caused me to find my own security mishap before anyone else did.  Yay!  :D