Adobe Hack Proves Dumb People Still Use Terrible Passwords

The stupidest password mistake you can make is to use an obvious password such as a sequence of consecutive numbers or the word ‘password’. Data from the recent hack of Adobe’s customer database demonstrates that stupidity remains rampant.

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Analyst Jeremy Gosney of the Stricture Consulting Group analysed a dump file of the leaked passwords, which are now thought to number at least 38 million. These were the 20 most common in his analysis:

  1. 123456
  2. 123456789
  3. password
  4. adobe123
  5. 12345678
  6. qwerty
  7. 1234567
  8. 111111
  9. photoshop
  10. 123123
  11. 1234567890
  12. 000000
  13. abc123
  14. 1234
  15. adobe1
  16. macromedia
  17. azerty
  18. iloveyou
  19. aaaaaa
  20. 654321

While we’d always advise anyone whose passwords had been potentially compromised to change them, no-one should have been using these passwords in the first place — and ideally IT pros should be setting up systems that block the most obvious offences.

[via BBC]


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