I tend to use one base password for everything... my email is the only one that is significantly different from anything else. For everything else I use a variation of the same one for everything... it is very hard to remember a different password for every log in you ever make, especially if they tell you not to write it down. Well I HAVE to write some down, or I'd never remember them!! lol

But, wow, to be dumb (yes: DUMB) enough to use 'password' as the password... you kind of deserve to have your account hacked (and is it truly even being hacked if you made it that easy??).