Study: 73% use bank password everywhere

Yet another good reminder that you should be using an inexpensive password managent solution like 1Password:

MSNBC reports that 73% of users are using their bank password on other Websites.

Password overlap also creates an easy end run around sophisticated banking security technology, which is only as strong as the weakest site where the password is used. Banks might enforce strong password creation requirements, for example. But if a consumer uses a bank password it at a poorly defended small site, a hacker can break into the small site, steal the log-in information and essentially crack the bank's high-tech system.

via redtape.msnbc.com

This story from Twitter gives an example of another way criminals can get your email and password and then try it at bank sites.