What's your password? The most popular code, have you been shot?

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Hackers popular passwords password strength
Tags accounts address based blogs code email email address find

Over the weekend, the Gawker Media server, which owns several well-known blogs such as Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehack, was hacked and more than 1 million user profiles were exposed on the Internet. This information contains the username, email address, and password. Although most of the passwords are encrypted, it was not long before the passwords of the 188,279 accounts were leaked.

The Wall Street Journal has made an interesting statistic based on this information: find the most common password choices in these 188,279 passwords. Unsurprisingly, the number one password was "123456" and was used by more than 3000 people. Ranked after it is password, 12345678, qwerty, abc123, 111111, and so on. Gawker's website names such as Lifehack, consumer, Gizmodo, Gawker, and Kotaku are also common passwords.

In these popular passwords, monkey (monkeys) unexpectedly ranked in the top 10, God knows what users are thinking. Other interesting passwords include the password used by Agent Mulder in the X-Files Trustno1, Lucas Science fiction film thx1138, etc.

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