RockYou Breach Reveals More Lazy '123456' Passwords
We thought we had this all sorted out some time ago. If you choose an easy-to-guess password -- like, say "123456" -- it puts your accounts and personal data in danger. So we were horrified a few months ago when a sampling of 10,000 hacked Hotmail, MSN, and Live.com accounts revealed that the most popular password was, in fact, "123456." But, like most other tech blogs and magazines, we rushed ...
RockYou, maker of irritating apps for Facebook and other social networks, along with add-ons like 'Glittertext' for MySpace, has suffered a major security breach that has potentially exposed e-mails and passwords of some 32 million users. Security firm Imperva contacted RockYou to alert it to a flaw it had found in its database of account information. But Imperva's warning was too late. At ...








