Unbelievable: "123456" Most Common Hotmail Password

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Pillslanger

Title of the thread is a little misleading.  That was only the most common password in a very small section of a community.  Ordinarily, this might still be statistically valid if it were a random sampling, but they were all stupid enough to fall for a phishing scam.  So of course you are going to have a high percentage of weak passwords, look at the group of people you are examining.  Frankly, I would have guessed more than 64 in 10,000.

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Black Lable 69

Ah the joys of lazy stupidity

 

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5150cd

I've got the same combination on my luggage!

/Registered to say that, it was worth it.

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AntiHero

Beat me to it bro. But yeah, i did some server administration in my past, and people REFUSE to have passwords. They contineto pine on with statements like "I have too many passwords" or "why can't i just use my first inital and last name?" well that's not really helpful is it? It's kinda defeating te purpose of a password, which is like having a key. I tend to use this as an explanation: "Would you make the lock to a safe 0 0 0 just so you didn't have to turn the dial?" and tey usually nswer "well no, but this is different" well no it isn't. Why in hell would you leave you accounting information on a secured server, if you won't password it, or have a simply crackable password. That's just saying "imbezzle" on a neon sign.

I don't like Microsoft, I associate with it.

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versak

no one used the word "password". hmm.

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compro01

I'm pretty sure they won't allow you to use "password" as the password on hotmail.

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I Jedi

And people wonder why their accounts are taken from them.

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bingojubes

I guess if it worked in Spaceballs, it works everywhere.

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HeartBurnKid

I have a Hotmail account with a 123456 password.  However, in my defense, I don't actually use that account for anything I actually care about; it's just for registrations on sites I don't plan to go back to and I suspect might spam me.

In fact, if I actually sign up for a site with that account, it's usually a username that I'll put on Bugmenot when I'm done.

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Havok

 I did the same thing! I found out someone's password was 123456 and then signed up for newsletters and-

 

 

CLICK.

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1337Goose

I wouldn't say that my hotmail password is easily hackable, but it's very weak compared to my Gmail password. True that it depends what you use it for. No point in securing your crap rigorously.

~Goose

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mattman059

I wonder how many of the 10,000 Hotmail accounts were used for junk...I know mine is...but it wasnt compromised that im aware of (havent been to it in like a year - Thanks Gmail)....

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Win7Maniac

Same here, my username (email) is junk (different domain), my password is junk, and the email that goes there is junk. Hackable, but really, who cares?

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adamjy12345

i do the same thing. Use another E-mail account for websites that will send spam. Just one way to keep things clean.

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