The 20 Most Popular Passwords Stolen From Adobe
It’s 2013 and people still use password as a password. Really.
Last month, Adobe had a big data breach which affected 38 million users, whose personal details were stolen. Jeremi Gosney, well-known password cracker and researcher from Stricture Consulting Group was able to download the file and publish the list of the most popular passwords used by Adobe users.
Adobe it’s not the first and won’t be the last company to get hacked, but that doesn’t stop people from using dumb passwords over and over again. You would think that people nowadays are more creative and worry about security breaches but the names on those list clearly prove us wrong.
The first two passwords on the list are the highly original 123456 and 123456789. How much time did those take? The third one is my particular favorite: password. And then it comes the number variations (12345678, 111111, 1234567, 123123, etc) and some other topic-related ones like adobe123, photoshop and adobe1. Let’s not forget the most romantic one of all: iloveyou.
Even though Adobe hasn’t confirmed that this list is accurate, it does seem like it could be true. After all, we’re the ones who always complain when we’re asked to create a password using at least one number and one capital letter. What about Abc123?
Via | Mashable
Last month, Adobe had a big data breach which affected 38 million users, whose personal details were stolen. Jeremi Gosney, well-known password cracker and researcher from Stricture Consulting Group was able to download the file and publish the list of the most popular passwords used by Adobe users.
Adobe it’s not the first and won’t be the last company to get hacked, but that doesn’t stop people from using dumb passwords over and over again. You would think that people nowadays are more creative and worry about security breaches but the names on those list clearly prove us wrong.
The first two passwords on the list are the highly original 123456 and 123456789. How much time did those take? The third one is my particular favorite: password. And then it comes the number variations (12345678, 111111, 1234567, 123123, etc) and some other topic-related ones like adobe123, photoshop and adobe1. Let’s not forget the most romantic one of all: iloveyou.
The Top 20
- 123456
- 123456789
- password
- adobe123
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 1234567
- 111111
- photoshop
- 123123
- 1234567890
- 000000
- abc123
- 1234
- adobe1
- macromedia
- azerty
- iloveyou
- aaaaaa
- 654321
Even though Adobe hasn’t confirmed that this list is accurate, it does seem like it could be true. After all, we’re the ones who always complain when we’re asked to create a password using at least one number and one capital letter. What about Abc123?
Via | Mashable
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