A study revealed the 10 most commonly used passwords. The most common passwords 123456 12345 123456789 Password iloveyou princess rockyou 1234567 12345678 abc123 Souce: Imperva http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/11032010
I used to hack people's e-mail passwords. Most of them use their student number. I got some passwords that were like "kitten" and "cheetah". I use random letters and numbers. -^_^
wow .. those pswds appeared easy enough to crack .. never use any of them .. all my pswds are in foreign languages plus random numbers and symbols, never one alone.
I wonder how accurate this is... because sometimes you just want to make an account and not give a shit if someone hacks into it or not, so they might use a simple password to login
^ yeah i use the '123456' etc for accounts i dont care about, people can go in and do what they want for all i care, but i used to have that kind of PW for my ebay and it got hacked by some nob in mainland china who hijacked it and changed my PW for my ebay and my hotmail account, luckily i managed to get my email back because i was logged into it with Windows live messenger at the time it happened so i still had access without the password, i managed to quickly change the PW, change the secondary emails that he put in there to hack it if he loses it, find his email (to tell him he lost the battle) and i got my ebay back and now used 20 character PW's that i dont even know, i use a password program now. the guy was trying to sell apple mac pros for £500 under my name, the most shady illiterate people were contacting me about that, ebay can be an ugly place.
I have used #10 before for a work document; but, I would never use any of those for my personal stuff. My cousin laughed at me once because he saw me enter a password of mine one time and he was surprised that it was all numbers and actually remembered it. =)
i'd like to think my password ranks somewhere in the top 50 most UNcommon passwords. 50 because i'm sure there are people who have passwords like 53sdgj4dgDngD53gH.
a typical 30 character password i would use: bFta;noVR`9@F`n'DJY'Hgk"qy$R%?, if you manage to access my stuff with a password generator then mad props to you but you prolly got more chance winning the lotto