🔐 Your Logins Are Under Attack: Protect Your Accounts Today
Attackers are replaying old email-and-password pairs at scale. If you’ve reused a password anywhere, you’re exposed. Here’s the five-minute fix.
In summary — credential-stuffing is when criminals try your leaked email and password on popular services until something opens. It works if you reuse passwords and skip two-factor authentication (2FA). The sensible countermeasures: a password manager to generate unique passwords and 2FA on every key account.
What’s happening: multiple services report spikes in automated login attempts using credentials from old breaches. This isn’t a fresh breach of today’s provider; it’s attackers replaying past leaks. Your job is to ensure those combinations no longer work anywhere important.
Do this now (5–10 minutes):
- Install a password manager and replace any reused passwords with strong, unique ones. Start with email, banking, cloud storage and socials.
- Enable 2FA (authenticator app or passkey) on your critical accounts to block logins even if a password leaks.
- Check Have I Been Pwned and rotate matching passwords immediately.
- On public or untrusted Wi-Fi, use a VPN to minimise session hijacking risk while you update credentials.
Why it matters: once an attacker gets into your email, password resets for everything else follow. A manager + 2FA shuts down most realistic takeovers. A VPN doesn’t fix bad passwords, but it protects traffic on ropey networks while you tidy up.
~5–10 minutes
Email → banking → cloud → socials
100% of key accounts
Rotate reused passwords today
Security note: a VPN does not fix reused passwords. Use unique passwords and 2FA. Links above are sponsored; terms and availability may change.
