My free password manager flagged a password I've used for years as compromised

I finally tried a password manager, Bitwarden, and its security check said an old password I still used for a forum was in a known data breach. I changed it immediately. Has anyone else had a password manager scare them into fixing a bad habit?

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scott.charlie1mo ago

Oh, that security check feature is a real eye opener. It basically held up a mirror to my terrible password habits from ten years ago. My old "secure" password was probably in more breaches than a leaky boat. The shame of seeing that list finally got me to stop reusing the same few codes everywhere.

rosebennett1mo ago

Bitwarden's breach check is good, but it only knows about public leaks. That old forum password was probably exposed years before the manager even flagged it. The real scare is how long we all go without checking.

riley8601d ago

scott.charlie said "the shame of seeing that list got me to finally stop reusing the same passwords everywhere" and man I felt that." It's wild how we all think our passwords are fine until something like Bitwarden straight up shows us the receipts. I had passwords from like 2015 in there from sites I forgot even existed. These tools are great but they only catch what's been publicly dumped, so there's probably way more shady stuff out there we just don't know about. Those old reused passwords from years ago are probably in way more places than we realize.