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Peek into world's most popular passwords
Friday, 24th December 2010
Readers of Gizmodo, Lifehacker and other Gawker Media sites may be among the savviest on the Web, but the most common password for logging into those sites is embarrassingly easy to guess: �123456.� So is the runner-up: �password.�

On Sunday night, hackers posted online a trove of data from Gawker Media�s servers, including the usernames, email addresses and passwords of more than one million registered users. The passwords were originally encrypted, but 188,279 of them were decoded and made public as part of the hack. Using that dataset, we found the 50 most-popular Gawker Media passwords. here is top 5:

123456
password
12345678
lifehack
qwerty


Publication : WSJ


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