Too Many Online Accounts

Dashlane projected that people in 2020 would have 207 online accounts in average. I have over 300.

I hardly believe I am using half of those 300 accounts in my daily life. In fact, I don’t think I have accessed to 50 of them in last 6 months. They must be waiting for either me to login or to be exposed in next data breach.

Take Uber for example. Turns out I ended up with 2 accounts on Uber. Last time I rode Uber was months ago, and my mom was the one who called it. There is no reason for me to have any Uber account.

I decided to do some deep cleaning, checking every single account in my Bitwarden account, and only moving the credentials for accounts I decided to keep around to a new Bitwarden account. Yeah, yeah. Creating another account to get rid of accounts, I get the irony. My priority is to find all the dangling accounts with easy to guess passwords, and unimportant accounts I created using my primary email address rather than unique alias addresses.

What now?

This is a call for you to do the same. You probably have a dozen of forgotten accounts which are nothing but security risks now.

Even if you are someone who doesn’t care much about online privacy or security, please at least check your primary and work emails for involvement on data breaches on haveibeenpwned.com.

Source

Infographic by Dashlane: https://web.archive.org/web/20150919202348/http://blog.dashlane.com/infographic-online-overload-its-worse-than-you-thought/

Edits

2023-06-06: Retouch to make article more readable, fix grammar mistakes and clean left over from draft I accidentlally forgot

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Jessica Mesber:
I tried to do some extra research about data breaches, and I came across another one in the media industry, that I think was interesting too: https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/foxnews-leak-report/

These things happen quite often (too often IMHO) and they are a very delicate situation, sometimes we underestimate the amount of information that some companies handle about their employees or users, and these are showing us the scary sides of data privacy. The lack of awareness of cyber security is dangerous to us, consumers, and this article actually explains it in a nice way.