My password hack

It's risky sharing my formula with you but this helps me remember them all

Good morning!

I had a chuckle at this…

“A 2014 security report resurfaced this week showing that the password for the server managing the CCTV network at the Louvre – Paris’ art museum which suffered immense financial loss after a heist team successfully targeted historical jewels last month – was, in fact, just “LOUVRE.”

Please tell me you don’t have ‘Password’ as yours?!

I’m going to share with you my password hack.

It’s never failed me before as it makes it easy to remember each one.

Now this is a risky exercise and I’d rather not have my bank account drained so I’m going to deliberately tell you my formula without telling you what my actual passwords are. Okay?

Here’s how it works.

I start with a common word in every single one of my passwords.

For example, let’s say that word is Lucky.

But then I change one or more of the characters in that word to numbers or symbols.

So let’s say instead of the letter ‘u’ I change it to ‘8’.

So now we have L8cky.

Next step - I add the name of the platform or service needing my password.

So if it was Netflix I’d use the last 4 characters of the word (flix) and add it to the end of L8cky.

Like this:

L8ckyflix.

Then I add 3 characters to the end of it. The same 3 characters to each password. Let’s say *&^

So my Netflix password would be L8ckyflix*&^

So if you think of this across some services like Disney+ (L8ukysney*&^) or Macquarie Bank (L8ckyarie*&*^) or a News website (L8uckynews*&^) you can see how it’s easily remembered but changes based on what you’re logging into.

Now repeating to all the hackers out there I’ve deliberately given incorrect instructions to how I create my own passwords - but let’s just say there’s a formula there I use.

Never forgotten a password - ever.

See you in the morning,

Wade