65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal

Re:65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal by martin-adams on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:17PM (#11809283)

Just looking at the haveibeenpwned.com it links to the cryptically poor Adobe password were. I am fascinated by how popular certain passwords are: http://stricture-group.com/files/adobe-top100.txt

It appears some random words aren't necessarily random. Words like 'shadow' and '1q2w3e4r'.

Fascinating!

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Re:65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal by fuzzywalrus on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:05PM (#11810659)

The top ten passwords in the in the adobe hack account for 2.8% of all passwords. About 1/35 used one of ten passwords. That's frightening to think about. Thanks for the share.

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Re:65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal by ben_jones on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @04:35PM (#11809979)

You can probably get even more correlation if you account for "l33tspeak" i.e. swapping letters for numbers that look like them.

    password => p455w0rd
    password => passw0rd

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Re:65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal by MichaelGG on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @09:30PM (#11811544)

Don't forget adding ! or 101 and so on to the end of a password and capitalizing the first letter. "Password1!" is likely to pass complexity and length requirements quite well.

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