Consumers Don’t Get the Value of Passwords to Hackers

Just about every time you read about a data breach, you also read about password security. Passwords are cash money to bad actors who swipe them from social media sites, retailing databases and other electronic stores.
Unfortunately, it seems many consumers don’t get that.

In fact, 21 percent of respondents assume their passwords are of no value to cybercriminals, according to the Kaspersky Lab Consumer Security Risks Survey. On top of that, survey respondents often take the easy way out when creating and storing passwords. Kaspersky offered an example: only 26 percent of respondents create separate passwords for each account and just 6 percent use password storage software.

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