I have a bad memory for long passwords and Origin and other secure websites annoy me a lot with the constant asking me to verify my details by giving phone numbers so that I can put in the code I get on my phone to change passwords and such. It leads one to trust Microsoft to "Save password" and you have to really trust Microsoft to do that.
I found my oldest OS suppliers' passwords did get pwn'd by Trawling as they had very simple passwords in those days, four letters and 4 numbers, easily hacked. Unfortunately my present supplier who bought up the company, three takeovers later won't allow me to change my original log on address. Any attempt to change it landed me in a muddle with young tech savvy foreign help assistants who didn't understand the problem one can have with a 20 year's plus old account address from previous suppliers! Years ago millions of passwords got hacked in a couple of successful bad hacks. Mine had been and I blacklisted every suspect one I came across in the supplier's own email downloads. I blacklisted whole pages of them just by "select all" after archiving the good.
These days I just use one app I trust the most and check occasionally, just download email headings only and delete every email that looks dodgy and they are very few..
I do wonder why I'm still getting emails from a certain USA politician though as I don't remember showing any interest in them, living in the UK as I do!
