Password Security in 2012

Poss...d Security in 2012 How common is your password? A series of recent hacks to popular sites like LinkedIn, Yahoo!, eHarmony and Last.fm has revealed the startlingly easy passwords we all use. The Yahoo! Passwords 442,773 passwords total were hacked 100,295 passwords, or 22.65% of the total, were used by more than one 342,478 of them were unique person Top 10 passwords Top 10 base words 1. 123456 1,666 accounts 1. password 2. welcome 3. qwerty 4. monkey 2. password 1 780 accounts 3. welcome 436 accounts 4. ninj a 333 accounts 5. jesus 6. love 5. abc123 250 accounts (5 6. 123456789 222 accounts 1. money 8. freedom 1. 12345678 208 accounts 8. sunshine 205 accounts 15 9. ninja 10. writer 9. princess 202 accounts 27 10. 9 werty 172 accounts Legend Top 10 years included 1. 2008 One of the 25 worst 2. 2009 XX passwords of 2011 3. 2007 4. 2000 One of the top 30 cracked LinkedIn passwords 5. 2006 6. 2005 1. 2004 8 XX 10 One of the top 10 last 4 digits included in the cracked LinkedIn passwords 8. 1987 XX 9. 2001 10. 2002 there's more at corousel30.com Protalinksi, Emily. (July 12, 2012). The top 10 passwords from the Yahoo hack Is yours one of them? ZDNet. Retrieved from http://www.zdnet.com/the-top-10-passwords-from-the-yahoo-hack-is-yours-one-of-them-7000000815/ Anders, Nilsson. July 12, 2012). Statistics of "450.000 leaked Yahoo accounts" Onilssonanders. Murphy, Samantha. (June 8, 2012). The 30 Most Popular Passwords Stolen From Linkedin. Mashable. Retrieved from http://mashable.com/2012/06/08/linkedin-stolen-passwords-list/ Tsukayama, Hayley. (June B, 2012). Linkedin, eHarmony, Last.fm hack highlight bad passwords. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technologylinkedin-eharmony-lastfm-hacks- highlight-bad-passwords/2012/06/08/gIQAq6ktNV_story.html Choney, Suzanne. (2011). The 25 worst passwords of 2011. Technolog on MSNBC. Retrieved from http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/25-worst-passwords-2011-118948 SDJJNOS