Amazon won't say how many accounts were affected in security lapse

Nope. Use a long (over 12 characters) password. On sites that store your password properly, which would include Amazon, a nice long password will not be cracked after a breach. Frequent password changes just increase the likelihood that you will accidentally lock yourself out of the account. Especially if something goes wrong with whatever password manager you use, or with the synching process across your various devices.

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