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title: Change Your Password! Amazon Discovers Leaked Credentials
description: Because people reuse the same password so often, leaked crendentials for one site often means hackers have access to other sites as well.
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# [Change Your Password! Amazon Discovers Leaked Credentials](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/change-your-password-amazon-discovers-leaked-credentials)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Tue | Oct 11, 2016 | 7:00 AM Z

Because people reuse the same password so often, leaked crendentials for one site often means hackers have access to other sites as well.

[Sophos Explains:](https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/10/11/amazon-finds-cache-of-reused-passwords-change-yours-now/)

> Amazon has reset some customers’ passwords and asked them to change them, according to [reports](https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/amazon-password-reset).
> 
> Amazon says that during “routine monitoring,” it stumbled on a set of email and password sets posted online.
> 
> Amazon isn’t the only online service to check for reused user credentials: both [Facebook](https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/10/21/facebook-prowls-the-internet-looking-for-your-password/) and [Netflix](http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/06/password-re-user-get-to-get-busy/) prowl the internet looking for your username/password combos to show up in troves of leaked credentials.

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