Retailers makes it easy for hackers!
- Cafepress (affiliate link) — Although I have been a huge supporter for those really cool shirts and other personable merchandise. They only require a 3 character password. If your using a 3 character password, then you are just yelling to the hackers come get my credit card information and personal information!
- Scholastic Inc — This one seem likes they allow this for kids, I just hope they don’t give out all that valuable information. They two also only require a 3 character password for an account!
- 1-800-flowers (1800flowers.com) — Only requrie a 1 character password, which means that you could use Q for your password and you’d be all set for someone to take your credit card information really quickly.
Those are only the few that I found that were really interesting. I am calling out these retailers to make changes to their password lengths. You can see the complete list of the 100 retailers with passwords length and various other data. This link is thanks to Steve Gibson to see all the important stuff!
Password Length
I’ve talked about Lastpass in the past so I will not talk about it anymore. I do recommend people use the maximum length you can have on sites that are really important to you. This will prevent hackers from guessing real simple passwords. Although you should have Higher, Lower, Numbers, and Special characters in your password to make password guessing even harder. It is up to you to prevent your account from getting hacked or taken over. No one can help you but yourself!
