78% of users forget their passwords after 90 days

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HYPR has published the results of a two-year study on how users use and manage their credentials. The researchers surveyed about 500 full-time employees from companies in the United States and Canada.

According to experts, 72% of users reuse passwords in private, while 49% of company employees simply change or add a number / symbol to their corporate password when it needs to be updated after 90 days.

Most users have resorted to password reset because they forgot it. Over the past 90 days, personal passwords have been reset by 78% of respondents, and corporate passwords - by 57% of those surveyed.

According to the survey results, 65% of respondents use applications, either digital or physical lists, to store their personal passwords, while in the corporate sphere 58% of respondents use such methods.

The researchers noted that users are not using technology designed to help manage passwords. Instead, most people rely on their own memory, which fails them repeatedly, forcing them to constantly flush their credentials.