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Without giving too much away about the circumstances, nobody else is at risk of being affected.
What TM said. But with Linked.In and Last.fm getting hacked recently, this is a good time to reflect upon the general safety of your accounts. I highly encourage any of you that already aren't doing so to use KeePass, LastPass, or some other reputable password manager. Use a different password for everything, let the programs create long random strings of characters for you. A 30-character combination of upper/lowercase, numbers and symbols will take a damned long time to brute force and any hacker will go for the low-hanging fruit - the countless fools that are using passwords like "password1" and "12345" - but even if they crack it, you'll at least know the damage is limited to that one account.
Any password that you actually need to remember (e.g. Dropbox, where I put KeePass Portable and my password database) should be a passphrase, because length is strength and phrases are longer and easier to remember than sh!tl1k3tH1s. Get creative: "Warrior Berserk Lv15". Bam, 20 characters, uppercase/lowercase and 2 numbers.
EDIT: Also, until I started using KeePass I had no idea I had already racked up such a large number of accounts:
That's a lot of sites that could get hacked, and if they're irresponsible and store your password as plaintext then it won't even matter how strong your password was. Unique passwords are a must.
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