How stupid is your password?
Analysis of 32 million breached passwords
Imperva released a study analyzing 32 million passwords exposed in the Rockyou.com breach. The data provides a unique glimpse into the way that users select passwords and an opportunity to evaluate the true strength of these as a security mechanism.
“Everyone needs to understand what the combination of poor passwords means in today’s world of automated cyber attacks: with only minimal effort, a hacker can gain access to one new account every second–or 1000 accounts every 17 minutes,” explained Imperva’s CTO Amichai Shulman.
The report identifies the most commonly used passwords:
- 123456
- 12345
- 123456789
- Password
- iloveyou
- princess
- rockyou
- 1234567
- 12345678
- abc123</em>
Is yours on the list?
