Around the 20th of October, 85 million usernames and emails were taken from Dailymotion servers along with 18 million hashed passwords. For those of you who don’t use Dailymotion, it is popular video sharing website. Because the passwords were encrypted, it will take some time for the cyber criminals to crack them. This gives users time to change their passwords on their Dailymotion account as well as change the password for any other accounts using the same password.

Once again this drives home the importance of having a different password for each account. It is not a matter of if one of your accounts will get hacked, it is a matter of when. Limit the damage…use unique passwords.