Tired of having to memorise several usernames and passwords for every secure website you visit? Don't fret. A recent study confirms what IT security experts have been saying all along--it is wiser to have different usernames and passwords to protect identities and information not meant to be public.
A week-long experiment by IT security solutions company BitDefender reveals that some people use the same username and password in logging into several secure websites. The experiment also revealed that some 250,000 e-mail addresses, usernames and passwords were found in social and open networks, including blogs, collaboration platforms, torrents and other channels.

Some 87 per cent of the information discovered are still valid and can be used to access accounts using information found elsewhere on the Internet. Moreover, the study revealed that 75 per cent of users use the same username and password to access both their e-mail accounts and their social networking accounts.

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