Password reuse · Cyber Behaviour Benchmark

The question, exactly as 3,832 people saw it

I reuse my work password(s) on my private accounts (so the work password and private password are identical).

Never

Sometimes

69%

Often

23%

Always

The full spread of answers, not just right and wrong. Everyone answered in their own language; the English wording is shown here.

What a participant was told

The feedback shown after answering, verbatim:

A reused password means one leak opens both doors: if a private account is breached, attackers try the same password on work accounts. Separate passwords keep one incident from becoming two.

The workgroup wrote these. Showing them beside the national result is how the questionnaire stays theirs.

Where it is weakest

Share whose own answer puts them at risk, by group. Only groups with enough people and enough organisations appear.

Group	At risk	People
Other sector	30%	352
Insurance sector	28%	416
Education sector	28%	329
Public sector sector	26%	192
Technology sector	25%	428
250 or more size	25%	1,886
Belgium, everyone	24%	3,832
Healthcare sector	24%	402
Manufacturing sector	24%	488
10 to 49 size	24%	608
50 to 249 size	23%	1,251
Just me size	22%	32
Professional services sector	21%	486
Retail sector	20%	410
2 to 9 size	20%	55
Financial services sector	17%	329

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