Friday, 24 December 2010

• The Most Common Gawker Media Passwords

  Recently, the site Gawker Media, set up by none other than Nick Denton was hacked. Subsequently, the hackers who called themselves, Gnosis, released a 500MB file containing both user and staff passwords, as well as personal communication between were all stolen and released onto the internet. While, the hack shows the fragility and susceptibility of websites, it also shows the stupidity of the users.

  Here are the stats for the top 25 most popular passwords that people used:
  
  [# of users, followed by the actual password] 

  2516 123456

  2188 password

  1205 12345678

  696 qwerty

  498 abc123 

   

  459 12345

  441 monkey

  413 111111

  385 consumer

  376 letmein

  351 1234

  318 dragon

  307 trustno1

  303 baseball

  302 gizmodo

  300 whatever

  297 superman

  276 1234567

  266 sunshine

  266 iloveyou

  262 f--kyou

  256 starwars

  255 shadow

  241 princess

  234 cheese

  (source)

   

   

  some love to tom

   

  Don't you think it's time to change your Xanga password now?

  PS. This is coming from the user who used to have his facebook password as "llamalima"

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