Secure Passwords

The most important part of keeping your email and account safe is a strong password. Your choice of password directly impacts the level of protection for your data and your entire account.

A strong password—along with recovery info for resetting it—is key to protecting your Seznam account and everything stored in it. Email inboxes often contain sensitive information like personal documents, invoices, banking details, and work-related content. Plus, your email is usually the gateway to your other online accounts.

In addition to setting a secure password, be sure to add a recovery phone number and recovery email address. Keep them up to date in case you ever need to reset your password due to a forgotten login or a compromised account.

Choose a Password That’s Hard to Guess

Avoid passwords based on your personal information—like your name, birth date, or pet’s name—as these are easy for others to guess.

A strong password should:

  • Be at least 7 characters long
  • Include both letters and numbers (accented characters and spaces are not supported)
  • Mix uppercase and lowercase letters
  • Be as random and unique as possible—not similar to your username or email address

Example:

User Josef Jirout with email address PepaJirout@seznam.cz:

  • Bad password choices: „jirka“, „pepa“ či „jirout“ aj.
  • Better options: jIRKa81548, j1i2r3k4a, or something even more random

Don’t Reuse Your Email Password Elsewhere

Even if you’ve chosen a strong password, your job isn’t done.

One major mistake is reusing your email password on other websites—like online stores, forums, news sites, social media platforms, blogs, or gaming services. If any of those sites gets hacked, stolen email-password combos may end up in the wrong hands. Attackers can then try the same password on your email account.

Best practice: Use a unique password for every site where you register. Store them all securely in a password manager that can auto-fill them when needed.

Example:

  1. Let’s say PepaJirout@seznam.cz registers at an online store called svetova-modni-obuv.cz using the same password as their email – jIRKa81548.
  2. Later, the store suffers a data breach and customer info (including emails and passwords) is stolen.
  3. An attacker goes through the stolen data, sees the email address, and tries logging into Seznam with the same password.
  4. It works. Now the attacker has access to the email inbox, can steal more data, or reset passwords to other accounts linked to that inbox.

Consider Using a Trusted Password Manager

Password managers can make your digital life a whole lot easier. You store all your passwords in one secure place, and the manager auto-fills them on websites and in apps. Since you don’t have to memorize them, you can use unique, complex passwords everywhere—which is highly recommended today.

Good password managers can:

  • Generate strong, unique passwords for you
  • Warn you if you’re reusing passwords
  • Store and auto-fill payment details, addresses, and contacts

You only need to remember one master password—the one used to unlock your password manager. Just make sure this master password is very strong, and choose a well-known, trusted manager. Some popular options are 1Password, LastPass, Bitwarden, Dashlane, and more.

Another big bonus: the password manager fills in your login info only on the original website. So if you accidentally open a phishing link from a fake email, the password won’t auto-fill—because the web address won’t match. This helps alert you that something isn’t right and gives you a chance to double-check the URL.

If you don’t want to use a separate password manager, modern web browsers (like Seznam.cz Browser, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, etc.) offer built-in password saving. These can also fill in your login details automatically.