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The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the damn-they-guessed-mine dept.

wiredmikey writes "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."

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  1. 123456? by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a coincidence! That's the combination to the airlock protecting the planet!

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  2. Please excuse me for a moment by arcite · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have to change the password on my luggage.

  3. My password by Krneki · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess I'm the only one to use ****** .

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    1. Re:My password by jimicus · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm sure someone else must use hunter2

    2. Re:My password by MacGyver2210 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You know, it just shows up as ******* when you type hunter2. Slashdot automatically blocks your password if you type it.

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    3. Re:My password by Tsunayoshi · · Score: 3, Funny

      wait, how did you know my pw?

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