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The most common password: '123456'
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Posted by dan on: 2010-01-27 16:53:11 Article Viewed :
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A recent analysis of 32 million passwords, obtained in the RockYou.com hack, has revealed that the most commonly used password on the site was 123456,' according to database and application security vendor Imperva.
After analyzing the data, researchers at Imperva Application Defense Center determined that 290,731 individuals used 123456' as their password. The second most common password, used by 79,078 individuals was 12345,' and the third most popular password, used by more than 76,790 individuals, was 123456789.'
It was surprising, Amichai Shulman, CTO at Imperva, told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday. We expected to see weak passwords, but we did not expect the magnitude of this.
The passwords were obtained in December by a hacker with the alias 'igigi,' who was able to break into the database of RockYou, a provider of applications and services for social networking sites, through an SQL injection vulnerability. The hacker obtained the RockYou credentials of all users, totaling more than 32.6 million, then posted them online with no other identifiable information. Source
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