Originally Posted by
qwerty
I went to the pwned website and read the details there. What strikes me is that passwords and usernames are being compromised through hacks of Yahoo, Gmail, etc., and yet the advice is to make a longer and more complicated password.
The hack is not of your individual password, it's at your email provider and having the most random, long and difficult password won't help you if someone has access to the database where your information is stored. Instead, the best protection would be to change your password often, perhaps every 2 weeks or every month.