Online security

7/22/2015

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Fast Company (New York, July 22) -- A security breech at a minor website can be dangerous, because it provides access to usernames and passwords that people re-use for more important sites, like their bank. A 2014 study by the University of Illinois, Princeton University, and Indiana University called "The Tangled Web Of Password Reuse," estimates that about half of people recycle passwords.


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This story was published July 22, 2015.