Like it or not, digital security has become an intrinsic part of your day. Passwords and even biometric data now affect large chunks of your life—from work to leisure. However, if you get a bit lax with your passwords and hand them out like candy, or you are unlucky enough to get hacked, things can take an uncomfortable turn. There are also uncomfortable moments when you uncover that someone’s been leeching off your account for ages without you realizing it.
Our team at Bored Panda has traveled to the far corners of the internet to compile this list of the biggest password-sharing fails and most unpleasant hacks ever. Scroll down to check them out. If this won’t convince you to keep your passwords strong and secret, then nothing will.
Bored Panda wanted to learn more about why people feel so strongly about their digital privacy, so we reached out to Phil Reed, a professor of psychology at Swansea University and the host of the ‘Digital World, Real World’ blog on Psychology Today. He was kind enough to shed some light on the issue for us. You’ll find his insights as you read on.
#1 My Son Failed To Inform Me That His Ex-Roommate Was A Netflix Freeloader
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#2 Person Who Hacked My Credit Card Emailed Me Asking Why I Canceled His Flight
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#3 Friend Of My Ex Has Been Using My Netflix Details Without My Knowledge For Years. Calls Me Cheap
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#4 Shared My Netflix Years Ago With My Mom And Sister. Had An Issue Last Night So I Checked The Recent Devices. Found Out There Were Tons Of People With My Password, Plus Someone Upped My Plan
Reset my password and told my sister I wasn’t going to share my password anymore. Chaos.
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#5 My Brother Gave Our Netflix Password To A Friend And They Started Using My Profile. I Reacted Swiftly
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#6 My Ex That I Haven’t Talked To In 6 Months Had The Audacity To Ask Me To Renew My Netflix Account So She Could Use It
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#7 First We Broke Up, Then – “Don’t Contact Me Again But Let Me Use Your Netflix”
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#8 Gave My Netflix Password To My Two Little Cousins (Squidgame Avatars) And They Changed My Previous Profiles To Their “Mom” And “Dad”. My Family Members And I Are Considered As “Guest”
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#9 Apparently I Am A Jerk For Not Giving My Email Password To Someone I Sold My Old Xbox One To
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#10 My Mom Casually Using Netflix On Two Screens At Once So Nobody Else Can Watch Anything
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#11 Bratty Cousin Stole My Netflix Password And When I Changed It He Wants Me To Give It To Him
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#12 We Got An Email From Mojang About Two Days Ago, Changed The Password, And Today My Boyfriend Receives This Email
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#13 Logged In To Google Slides And Found This
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#14 How Dare They Inconvenience You By Being Too Poor
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#15 Expecting Someone To Pay For Your Netflix When You Don’t Even Know Who They Are
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#16 My Girlfriend’s Instagram Account Got Hacked. There Is The Response They Gave Me
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#17 I Was Feeling Nice So I Offered Free Hulu To A Guy Who Couldn’t Afford It
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#18 Brother Who Refuses To Work Tries To Emotionally Blackmail Me Over Netflix Subscription
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#19 Got Off Work This Morning And Checked My Phone To See Someone In China Was Trying To Access My Apple ID
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#20 Roommate Is Using My Hulu To Watch The Game Making Me Not Able To Watch It, I Never Gave Him The Login
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#21 Letting People Use Your Hulu
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#22 We Got Hacked At Work And The Private Work Email Got Leaked, Yes It Says 186497, And It Is Still Going On At Around 2 Emails A Second
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#23 Someone Hacked My Taco Bell Account And Ordered $40 Worth Of Food
They used my debit card that was already hooked up to pay and didn’t leave their delivery address in the recent addresses. (The address on the delivery screen is the store it’s coming from) Although I’m pretty sure they forgot to delete their phone number from the profile section so I have that. Is there a way I could give it to the police to try and go after them?
I might be a bit more than mildly infuriated.
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#24 Guy Who Hacked My PS4 Account Admits It And Would Like Some More Free Games
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#25 Good Day Sir
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#26 My Fiancee Gave Me The Login Info To Our Baby Registry And Then Changed The Password Right After My First Addition
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#27 After A Year Of Separation, She Says She’s Going To Use My Netflix
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#28 Won’t Pay For Streaming
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#29 My Good Friend Who Has Been Posting 400+ Memories To His Instagram Account Since 2012, Has Been Hacked By Russians. Instagram Won’t Do Anything To Get It Back For Him
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#30 My Sister Asking For My Netflix When She Is 33 And Lives With My Mom And Dad
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#31 I Accidentally Left My YouTube Account Logged in On My Laptop That I Had To Share With My Sister Last Night And This Is What She Has Done To The Recommended Section In 5 Hours
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#32 My Little Brother Used My Account To Subscribe To 50 Or More YouTubers. It’s Been Two Hours
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#33 Never Speak To Me Again… But Wait, Just Two More Episodes
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#34 Sure, I’ll Just Kindly Ask The Person That Stole My Previous PS4 To Deactivate My Account
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#35 My Buddy’s Ex-Girlfriend Stole My Netflix Info And Got Angry At Him When I Changed The Password
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#36 Someone Hacked My Spotify And Liked 241 Songs. They Also Made Their Own Playlist
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#37 This Guy Got Into My Account And I Changed The Password So He Wanted It Back
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#38 My Xbox Account With Over A Few Months Of Play Time And Has Had A Few Hundred Pounds Spent On It Has Been Hacked, Passwords Changed
I’ve had this account since the beginning of Xbox 360.
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#39 Hacker Got My Instagram For A Week And Today I Received This On My New Private Account. The Audacity
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#40 My Husband Shared The Hulu Password With A Friend Who Won’t Stop Sending Requests For Progressive Info To My Phone Every 15 Minutes
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#41 Girlfriend’s Instagram Got Hacked And Instagram’s “Help Center” Has Not Helped Us Recover It. Now The Hacker Has Been Making These Posts About Some Crypto Scam
Linking to his own main account and when we report her old account or the hacker’s, Instagram says there seems to be nothing wrong.
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#42 I Gave My Sister The Password To My Premium Spotify Account
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#43 A Random Person Has Been Using My Disney Plus Account, After I Deleted Their Profile They Came To Mine And Started Watching There
This was their profile, I deleted it after making sure it wasn’t one of my brother’s friends or something, for some reason everything inside their profile was in Spanish.
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#44 Some Jerk Hacked My Steam Account With 2FA And Gifted Two Of Their Alts Rust And Now I’m 80-Something Bucks Down The Drain
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#45 Netflix 16+ Membership. Wife On One TV, Kid On The Other
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