Posted on: 07/30/26 07:47PM
In the future use a password manager to save your passwords. I currently use BitWarden (
bitwarden.com/ ), but LastPass (
www.lastpass.com/ ) will suffice as well. There are others, including the free, open source KeePass (
keepass.info/ ), but the first two are easier to integrate into your browser. Both of them have extensions that work in Chrome, Firefox and all forks of those two browsers' rendering engines. (Which is pretty much all of them.)
As a bonus you can use them to generate and save long random passwords with upper & lower case characters, numbers and special characters. That way you can easily have a different password for every one of your logins, one that can't be cracked by password guessing. I'd recommend at least 30 characters in length.
If you're reusing the same password for multiple logins, like your email, bank, forums, etc.
Make them all different and unique immediately.. Criminals will hack sites, steal their user databases, then share the login info. (Often selling it to other criminals.) Then they try logging into other sites using the same login/password combo. So if you used the same password on some random web forum that used for your email account, they can
easily login to your email account once that forum is hacked.
Make sure you use a long password with at least upper/lowercase characters, numbers & special characters for the password for the password manager you chose. Write that one down if you need to so you can remember it no matter what. For special characters you can use simple character substitution: a -> @, c -> ( and so on. Same for numbers, i/I -> 1, e -> 3, etc. Even if you take a simple phrase like "thisismypasswordstayout" you can change that to "th1s1myp@$$w0rd,st@y0ut!" and it's
much more secure, but not difficult to remember. Just don't use that phrase, it's out there and known now that I posted it.
Feel free to send me a live chat message if you need help picking one and setting it up.