Comment by Misterpiece on 06/05/2019 at 20:19 UTC

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View submission: How to keep your Reddit account safe

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Account name and username should ideally be different. Perhaps Reddit was built before people realized this.

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Comment by mully_and_sculder at 07/05/2019 at 02:54 UTC

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It was far more common to have a private account username years ago. Now almost invariably websites use your public email address as a username which gives attackers yet another bit of info in resetting and hijacking your account.