Though Chester Wisniewski has 488 different passwords, he was still recently the victim of online hacking, Moneyville reports. Wisniewski, a computer security expert, was one of the victims of the Sony PlayStation breach, which affected 100 million users. Had he used that same password for other sites, such as his online banking, the repercussions would have been worse. "Unfortunately, once you have stolen someone's Facebook or e-mail account, it kind of unlocks everything in their life...it's easy to commit identity theft," Wisniewski said. Users should protect themselves by using multiple, strong passwords that change every so often and avoiding conducting private business on public computers, the report states.

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