# Best practices for storing your Stripe password

Keeping your Stripe password secure is essential to protect sensitive financial data and prevent unauthorized access to your funds. A compromised password could result in fraudulent transactions, financial loss, and potential damage to your business's reputation.
To keep your Stripe password secure, you should:
1. Ensure your password is sufficiently complex and not easily guessable;
1. Never share your password with anyone else; and
1. Do not reuse your Stripe password on another website.
### The dangers of password reuse
If you use the same password on Stripe and a different website, then when that website experiences a data breach, your password might be exposed. An attacker can then try all the credentials exposed in the data breach to gain access to your Stripe account.
To mitigate this, ensure that your Stripe password is unique and not reused anywhere else.
### How do I remember unique passwords for every website?
We strongly suggest that you use a **password manager**.
A password manager generates strong, unique passwords for each website and store them in an encrypted database. When using a password manager, you memorize a single unique master password for the password manager itself, and it can automatically fill in the strong, unique password it generated into every website. Because of this, a password manager makes it faster to log into websites while increasing security.
While Stripe does not endorse any particular password manager, here are some common ones:
* [1Password](https://1password.com/);
* [Bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/);
* [Dashlane](https://www.dashlane.com/);
* [NordPass](https://nordpass.com/);
* [Keeper](https://www.keepersecurity.com/personal.html);
* [RoboForm](https://www.roboform.com/); and
* [KeePassXC](https://keepassxc.org/).
Password managers can also protect you from phishing attacks. If you have your Stripe password stored in a password manager, but it doesn't offer to automatically fill in the password when you try to sign into Stripe, you should double check that you are on the correct website.
### How do I create a secure password that's easy to remember?
We strongly recommend that you use a password manager and let it generate a secure password for you. However, if you choose to not use a password manager (or if you are looking for ideas for a master password), we recommend that you choose at least four random words from the dictionary and use them as your password.
You can use websites such as [correcthorse.pw](https://correcthorse.pw/) to securely generate such passwords.