The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

18 December 2006

No wonder Tom is tearing his hair out

Someone phished a batch of MySpace users and came away with thousands of passwords. While it can be presumed that some of those passwords were unique, rather a lot of them were not:

The top 20 passwords are (in order):
password1, abc123, myspace1, password, blink182, qwerty1, fuckyou, 123abc, baseball1, football1, 123456, soccer, monkey1, liverpool1, princess1, jordan23, slipknot1, superman1, iloveyou1 and monkey.

At least they seem to have gotten past the Susan problem. But in general, this is not heartening, unless you're a big fan of monkeys.

(Via kottke.org.)

Posted at 7:30 AM to PEBKAC


Odd, I'd have thought "Spiderman" would have ranked a lot higher than "Superman" among the MySpace crowd.

Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 12:55 PM on 18 December 2006