Top 50 Gawker passwords are comically bad

Gawker password length.

Every time a prominent site gets hacked, someone always goes through the trouble to analyze the passwords contained in the data leak, usually to my own comic amusement. With sites from the Gawker network, especially sites like Gizmodo and Lifehacker, where users commonly claim to be among the web’s most savvy users, you would expect the passwords to be a little better.

Numbers one, two, and three? 123456, password, and 12345678. The full list is even funnier, though, and contains things like “letmein,” “princess,” and “starwars.” Well done, nerds of the internet.

You can find more entries, along with some graphical analysis of the passwords included at the Wall Street Journal.

  

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