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A Brief Sony Password Analysis

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the change-it-now-people dept.

troyhunt writes "With all this [Sony] customer data now unfortunately out there for public viewing, I thought it would be interesting to do some analysis on password practices. There are some rather alarming (although not entirely surprising) findings including: 36% of passwords appear in a common password dictionary. 50% of passwords are 7 characters or less. 67% of accounts on both Sony and Gawker use the same password. 82% of passwords are lowercase alphanumeric of 9 characters or less. 99% of passwords don't contain a single non-alphanumeric character."

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  1. My password is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    '); DROP TABLE Password;

    1. Re:My password is by snookerhog · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bobby, is that you?

  2. Re:hunter2 by MacGyver2210 · · Score: 1, Funny

    There weren't any passwords listed in the sony data as ******* - as you typed it. If you can write the actual password instead of the masked version I could tell you for sure...

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