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People use compromised passwords 41% of the time when logging into email, streaming services, social media, or any other online service, a Cloudflare analysis has found.🗞 Password reuse is common because many users use credentials across multiple services, “creating a ripple effect of risk when credentials are leaked”, warns cloud security company Cloudflare.
Cloudflare analyzed traffic between September and November 2024 and found that 41% of successful website logins involved leaked or otherwise compromised passwords. The actual percentage could be even higher, as Cloudflare used its own database of over 15 billion password leaks, including data from the Have I Been Pwned service. Cloudflare is often compared to the backbone of the modern internet, analyzing about 20% of the network behind its 30 million internet objects.
“Even after major breaches, many people do not change their compromised passwords or continue to use variations of them across different services. For these users, the question is not if, but when”, the tech giant said.