Still using your pet’s name as a password? So are hackers.

Do you use your birthdate or pet’s name as a password, or rely on the same phrase to access several sites? Passwordmanager.com says Americans continue to rely on “risky” password habits, increasingly leading to security incidents that could compromise data. Eighty four percent of U.S. adults don’t use a unique password for every account, and two-thirds admit to using predictable patterns and/or personal information, especially simple number or letter patterns, birth years or dates or family or pet names. Some people even use the word “password” as their password. That laziness has real-world implications: More than four in 10 say one of their accounts has been involved in a breach, hack or scam.