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The 10th most common password was far too interesting for me to ignore. While it is fairly easy to type, its not easy enough for it to be some sort of tap-passw
by Sapient 15y ago
The 10th most common password was far too interesting for me to ignore. While it is fairly easy to type, its not easy enough for it to be some sort of tap-password.
Having a closer look at the list, and assuming the dump is organised in some sort of chronological creation order, you can see that all the accounts which use that password are created in several tight groups, share a fairly common username theme (mostly female names), and use a fairly narrow selection of email providers. I would guess they were made by a bot.
- makmanalp 15y agoYup, the article also says: > My guess would have to be it’s some worm that resets the accounts it hacked into to it.
- Sapient 15y agoAh thanks, I need to learn to read gooder. The password got me so curious I couldn't even finish reading the sentence. Edit: Thinking about his explanation, it doesn't really make sense to me. If that were really the case, those accounts would be more evenly distributed through the list - yet they are tightly clustered, which leads me to think they were created in groups (guessing the list has some sort of chronological order).
- busyant 15y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "clustered". Where are you looking at the clustering?