The 2019 Consumer Reports article “2 Billion Stolen Emails & Passwords Surface Online” indicates that there are 2.2 billion victims of password theft of 4.2 billion global internet users. It is mind-boggling that some still insist on using simple passwords like “password”--one of five most popular passwords from 2019--and expect to be protected.

Even passwords optimized for length, uniqueness, and complexity fail to measure up. As the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) lays out, “It doesn’t matter how ‘good’ your password is, it is not enough to secure access... on its own.”