The average password is reused 2.7 times

Despite the fact that credential stuffing using stolen passwords is one of the most common ways of breaching systems, new research from Balbix for this year's World Password Day finds that over 99 percent of employees reuse passwords across work accounts, or between work and personal accounts. In addition the average password is reused not just once, but 2.7 times, and the average user is sharing eight passwords between all their accounts with 7.5 passwords shared between work and personal accounts. The Balbix Threat Research Team randomly sampled data from more than 10,000 users across dozens of enterprise accounts representing every… [Continue Reading]