If you have a Gawker account and you use the same password on other accounts, you have a serious problem.
The single most important thing you should not do on the Internet is to use the same password on every account. Because Gawker did not use effective encryption on the 1.3 million passwords that have been stolen, any account that has the same password is compromised. If your gmail or other email archive is compromised, then any email in your archive saying “your password is ______” for some other account potentially has been compromised.
This rule is especially important if the password is protecting something else important – like if you are the system operator of some other user account database that might further be broken into and spread the problem.
