Almost 40% of Irish people have not updated their main password in the last year, according to new research.
Research from OneLogin also shows one in five have not changed their log-in details in over two years.
Another 5% cannot recall the last time they updated their passwords.
The survey of a thousand adults found more than a quarter of us write passwords down on a piece of paper, with almost as many storing them on their phone or computer.
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It comes as OneLogin opens its headquarters in Dublin, creating 30 jobs.
The research also looked at how Irish adults store their passwords.
- Storing passwords
- 27% of Irish adults write down their passwords on paper,
- 24% save them on their phone or computer
- 16% use a dedicated third-party password manager or app (such as Google Password Manager or OneLogin)
- 43% either don’t have any particular method of storing their passwords or used another method other than the above.
