Shock and surprise! The most common password in use at Gawker -- revealed after
Sunday's açai berry hack attack -- was "123456." But, at least the second most common password was a pretty smart one, right? Oh, no -- "password" isn't that smart of a password.
Check out the Wall Street Journal to see what the other cyber-security geniuses and razor-tongued wordsmiths over at Gawker were using to protect their precious commenters' accounts. Full list after the break.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsThomas SwistDec 15th 2010 2:58PM
1-2-3-4-5?! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! Spaceballs.
wcw4721Dec 15th 2010 3:56PM
I wouldn't be able to guess these passwords. Someone that really wants to hack in will find a way, clever password or not. Aside from "password" and "1-2-3-4-5-6" these are about as secure as "ch546yte" because who is going to guess "monkey" or "princess"? Seriously, who would guess that? If you were to make a list of 5 passwords that are easy to guess, chances are everyone would have "password" on there, and 4 other random ones. A guesser isn't a hacker.
borisDec 15th 2010 8:57PM
@wcw4721
You maybe is clueless about hacking "princess" password, but there are programs that crack accounts against list of 10K-20K commonly used passwords. This is much faster job than doing brute force crack.
Gregory PierceDec 17th 2010 12:58PM
Uh, that's not stupid - its actually brilliant. Those people likely didn't have a REAL password compromised when the Gawker database was hacked. Seriously, what security level do you associate with posting sites and forums? Most of those people maybe post a few times a year and didn't want to learn a new password so just used something generic. Given that there hadn't been a reported rash of people saying that their Gawker account was hacked previously - I think it may be a bit premature to say they know nothing about password security.