Two-thirds of British consumers use the same password for most of their online accounts

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Password re-use message has yet to filter down to the masses, according to survey of British internet users

Two-thirds of British internet net users are still re-using their passwords across their most important online accounts. Only one-fifth use a different password for each account they have, while...

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