DAE get mad when IT forces a password reset every 90 days?

So our IT guy pulled me aside after a meeting and goes, you know you've been using the same password with a 1 at the end for like 3 years right? I was embarrassed. He showed me a site that checks if your email was in a breach and mine had been in 4 of them. Now I use a password manager and I don't even know most of my passwords. Honestly kind of a pain but whatever. Has anyone else had IT call them out like that?

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anthonym712d ago

My old password strategy was just adding a new number each time, so password1 turned into password2, then password3. I was basically doing IT's job for them by counting up in plain sight. My guy never called me out in person but he sent a company wide email about "reusing old passwords" and I just stared at my screen like he was reading my diary. The breach checker thing scared me straight too, one of mine showed up and I changed everything that night. Password manager felt like a chore for maybe a week and now I could not go back.

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