2010-12-13
Why you should not use the same password everywhere...
Like every major password breach from christiansingles to rockyou.com, there are an alarming number of people that use completely insecure passwords. Perhaps the thought process is that the worst an attacker could do if he or she got your password (assuming the same password is not used everywhere else) is leave comments as you on a Gawker Media web site. But the same pattern emerged in the hotmail password dump that showed up on Pastebin last year, and in that case it was a password for a person’s e-mail access.
1,958 Gawker users’ password was ‘password’.
681 users used ‘qwerty’ or qwerty and a minor variation (qwerty followed by two digits or letters).
We haven’t finished analyzing the file to determine how many users had 1-2-3-4-5, the combination on my luggage.
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