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Most Popular Passwords people chose

         

dailypress

12:39 pm on Jan 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

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See Image for common passwords used:
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Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was "12345."

Today, it's one digit longer but hardly safer: "123456."

Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google's e-mail service, many people have reacted to the break-ins with a shrug.

According to a new analysis, one out of five Web users still decides to leave the digital equivalent of a key under the doormat: they choose a simple, easily guessed password like "abc123," "iloveyou" or even "password" to protect their data...


source: NY Times via yahoo finance:
If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe [finance.yahoo.com]
ps. excuse the misspelling

[edited by: phranque at 2:24 pm (utc) on Jan. 22, 2010]
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rocknbil

7:09 pm on Jan 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Not to mention the defaults for open source software . . . usually user name admin, password admin . . . doh!

bwnbwn

7:21 pm on Jan 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

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how about some here in my office till I threw a fit. Been couple years ago.

username was person name in office. This was easy to get from web
password drum roll password

I bet it takes #2 without looking