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Credential stuffing is a common danger, and is growing in frequency. For example, 2020's CRA breach was down to people reusing passwords.

📣 The CRA hacks happened because people reuse passwords. Here’s why, and how, to stop reusing passwords.

Many of us are not only using the same lock and key everywhere, it’s a lock and key we bought at the dollar store.

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1. Fortunately, credential stuffing is avoidable. To be safe, use a password manager to create unique passwords for all your logins. Here is a quickstart for the password manager we use.

⚡️ Basic quickstart for Bitwarden on desktop

Effectively getting started with Bitwarden is easy.

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2. We also recommend multi-factor authentication, to reduce the potential damage if you get phished. Here is a quickstart for the multi-factor authenticator (quite a mouthful isn't it?) we use.

⚡️ Basic quickstart to Authy on mobile

Getting started with 2FA isn’t as difficult or time-consuming as it may sound.

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3. Multi-factor authentication is quickly becoming available on public services in Canada. We recommend using them wherever you can.

☕️ Step-by-step: Use multi-factor authentication on canada.ca

Get started with multi-factor authentication on canada.ca My Service Canada Account (MSCA).

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Learning to be safer doesn't have to be a scary or intimidating!