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by xur17 2069 days ago
> If you re-use the same password for all sites, it takes just one sketchy site being compromised for all of your other sites to become compromised.

And speaking as someone that operates a website accepting passwords, this happens more than you'd think. There are hackers that actively try leaked lists of username / passwords against websites using botnets. If your password is leaked by one website, people will attempt to reuse it on other websites.