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I just hit 100 unique passwords in my manager and it's a weird feeling
I always thought reusing a few strong ones was fine until I saw my old email in a breach list on Have I Been Pwned. That was for a site I hadn't used in years, but the password was one of my main ones. Now I use Bitwarden and seeing that triple-digit count made me realize how many accounts I had that were at risk. How do you even start cleaning up old accounts you don't use anymore?
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roberts.leo1mo ago
My buddy Mark had 87 accounts in his manager and decided to do a clean sweep last year. He found an old forum account from like 2012 where his password was still "ilovepizza123". The crazy part was that forum had been sold to some random company and suddenly his email was getting spam for sketchy weight loss pills. Took him a full afternoon just to delete that one because the forgot password email went to his old college address that he hadn't touched in a decade. I'd say start with the sites you kinda remember, even if it's just a vague feeling you signed up for something, and just try the worst passwords you used to use.
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nancyjones2mo ago
Remember that old "forgot password" flow that makes you answer security questions? I tried that on a dead account and couldn't remember my own first pet's name, so I guess that account is just out there haunting the internet now. Honestly, I started by making a list of every account I could remember, then spent a whole weekend just trying to log in to see if they still existed. For the ones I could get into, I changed the password to a new random one from my manager before closing them, which felt pretty good.
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