[mothered]

Re-using passwords is a really bad habit that you should abandon. If you use the same password for everything, it only takes one breach for your other accounts to be compromised.

I actually put this to the test many years ago on a random user.

After obtaining his password, I tested It against all major websites (Amazon, eBay, Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook etc), and found that It was used on over 95% of the sites. Of course, this was strictly for testing purposes. Password reuse Is a commonality, which Is very bad practice.

In fact, passwords should not be used to begin with, but rather (where accepted) "passphrases" or as I like to call It, a "pass sentence". For Instance, something that's so easy to remember such as "I love going to the movies on Friday nights".  Due to It's length, random phrase and particularly the number of spaces, It's extremely secure and literally next to Impossible to bruteforce.