Gawker hack triggers password resets at major sites

[papa_smurf]

Millions of users been asked to change their Yahoo/Twitter/Linkdln/World of Warcraft passwords after blog network has been hacked.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11998648

And heres some of the most common passwords hacked:

[Chad]

Well none of my passwords are in the top 10 so guess I'm safe

[Gerald]

Who uses such simple passwords,

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Who uses such simple passwords,

People who almost deserve to get screwed over to learn the lessons in security.

@Neal - please could you change my password from 123456 to 987654 - that'll fool 'em

[razark]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Who uses such simple passwords,

And how many different sites are the using "123456" for?

[Gerald]

Like, they lack imagination in their passwords,

[the_tyrant]

Ahh, fear mongering

most people aren't stupid enough to use easy passwords for their important accounts anymore. the easy passwords are usually for their unimportant accounts.

pro tip: sometimes people use 1 really secure password for every account they have, because they can only memorize 1 long password.
Instead, use the secure password for you important account(s), for the rest just use your user name as your password.

I usually use ***** as my username, and ***** as my password for porn sites.

also, use biometric security if possible

The very first thing to Hack passwords is.........
try simple stuff.

Haveing owned and operated an ISP?
I know how lazy people can be.

Now think of how many Bank Accounts are probably easy pray to lazyness.


Umm.
Excuse me while I transfer a few funds here.
I mean while I go wash my hair!

[onelifecrisis]

"lifehack" is the 4th most popular password!?

[Castout]

Since the word is out and nobody is going ever to use them again I'm going to pick the number 1 on the list as my new password

I'd bet I can access accounts with those same passwords right now.
People know that candles can start fires but everyday places burn down.
And candles have been around much longer.
Your faith in Morons is greater then mine.

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

pro tip: sometimes people use 1 really secure password for every account they have, because they can only memorize 1 long password.
Instead, use the secure password for you important account(s), for the rest just use your user name as your password.

I've got two different standard passwords with tons of variations on one of them. That makes two secure standard passwords and one medium secure (10 random lowercase letters). I use the secure ones for important accounts, and my medium secure for less important ones.
Then of course there are small variations on my medium and one of my stronger passwords, all in all I guess I've got about 6 or 7 different passwords.