DeclanDublin
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Many people reuse passwords so if one site is breached the hackers know to try the passwords on other websites.
The main protection is to use a unique password for every site
It's not quite that simple: they will have an encrypted form of the password. They can still use this as part of an attempt to guess your password as it can confirm whether the guess is correct, but they still need to guess. That's why it's important not to use anything that can be easily guessed. Note that "guessed" in this context means a highly automated procedure capable of testing potentially millions of combinations for each password: having the encrypted password makes this process feasible, as they don’t have to try each guess against a live Web site
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