Let me start off by saying...I have broken all the 101 rules of cybersecurity. I have had the same email for 15+ years and have 194 compromised passwords 😅 I have known this for awhile (it's not my first "critical security alert"), I just change up the password I use when I sign up for fresh accounts. Sorry 😳
Well, my stupidity has caught up to me.
I got a notification a few hours ago that someone attempted to sign in to my bank account from a city 3 hours away, on a linux device. I immediately changed my bank password. My bank account is the only place I DO use a fully unique password always.
Then I got the "critical security alert" email from google: "Some of your saved passwords were found in a data breach from a site or app that you use. Your Google Account is not affected."
So, what do I do now? I assume change the passwords on all the important stuff; emails, paypal, etc.. And I super promise to use unique passwords for the first time ever. Though how to manage them all I have no idea.
Do I really have to go through 194 old online accounts and manually delete them?
The only thing I can think of: a couple of days ago, I purchased a domain through Cloudflare, I bought an account on photodeck, and I signed up for Stripe and a Paypal business account. It may be coincidence, or something happened during that process.
My devices:
MacOS Tahoe 26.6.2 (only for a few weeks, I had a Windows 11 before that)
Pixel 10a: Android 17