#1 · Jan 21, 2010 19:00 UTC
... and, is it strong?
This is kind of amazing.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358273,00.asp
This is kind of amazing.
In December, RockYou.com was hacked, and a list of usernames and passwords was exposed to the Web, in plain text. A month later, security analysis firm Imperva has analyzed the most common passwords, and the results are depressing, to say the least.
By far, the most popular password on the site was "123456," apparently satisfying a minimum character limit on the site's password restrictions, but doing little for security. A full 290,731 users used this password, far more than the runner-up, the slightly less complex "12345, which attracted 79,078 uses.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358273,00.asp