Clean Up Compromised Passwords

We can't stress it enough: password hygiene is one of the most important things we can do to protect ourselves against hackers who have ill intentions with our hard-earned money. If you are like the old me, you use the same password for everything as a convenience, but it’s the equivalent of hitting the lottery to a hacker. All it takes is to gain access to one account and now everything is compromised. Both Chrome and Edge have password managers with a feature that will tell you if any of your passwords have been compromised in a data breach. If that happens, I like to use an online password generator from LastPass or 1Password to replace the compromised one. To check for compromised accounts in Chrome, the steps are as follows: vertical 3 dots in top right > Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager > on the left side press Checkup. On Edge the steps look like this: 3 dots in the top right > Passwords > Password check in the center > lastly, change the filter to leaked. By doing this you can tell what accounts need to be changed, especially if you were once like me using the same password for everything.