Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Meet the worst 100 passwords from the Ashley Madison hack

And, what a surprise, they're about as inventive (and easy to crack) as "123456."
In defense of the cheating scumbags caught up in the Ashley Madison hack
Opinion: Everyone has a right to privacy -- even immoral and stupid people.
A list of the worst passwords in the Ashley Madison breach just got longer -- and a lot more depressing.
Security research group CynoSure Prime were able to find out the most common passwords that were used on Ashley Madison, a site which helps married people cheat on their partners, which suffered a massive data breach earlier this year when it was targeted by hackers.
The list of the 100 most commonly-used passwords was first posted on Ars Technica.
As many as 36 million passwords were leaked, but they were hashed, meaning they were cryptographically scrambled using a feature known as bcrypt. An earlier analysis of just 4,000 decrypted passwords (about 0.0006 percent of the entire cache) took days of constant crunching. By comparison, 2.6 million of the hashed passwords were cracked with just one computer in a mere few hours.
But by analyzing the source code of the site -- also leaked in the data dump -- the researchers found that some of the login tokens used MD5, a far weaker hashing algorithm.
"Instead of cracking the slow bcrypt hashes directly, which is the hot topic at the moment, we took a more efficient approach and simply attacked the [MD5] tokens instead," the researchers wrote.
At the time of the team's posting on Thursday, more than 11.2 million passwords had been successfully hacked, or about one-third of the total cache. With that in mind, the list will likely change slightly over time.
PasswordTimes used
123456120,511
1234548,452
password39,448
default34,275
12345678926,620
qwerty20,778
1234567814,172
abc12310,869
p***y10,683
12345679,468
6969698.801
ashley8,793
f**kme7,893
football7,872
baseball7,710
f**kyou7458
1111117,048
12345678906,572
ashleymadison6,213
password15,959
madison5,219
a**hole5,052
superman5,023
mustang4,865
harley4,815
6543214,729
1231234,612
hello4,425
monkey4,296
0000004,240
hockey4,191
letmein4,140
111114,077
soccer3,936
cheater3,908
kazuga3,871
hunter3,869
shadow3,831
michael3,743
1212123,713
6666663,704
iloveyou3,671
qwertyuiop3,599
secret3,522
buster3,402
horny3,389
jordan3,368
hosts3,295
zxcvbnm3,280
asdfghjkl3,174
affair3,156
dragon3,152
9876543,123
liverpool3,087
bigd**k3,058
sunshine3,058
yankees2,995
asdfg2,981
freedom2,963
batman2,935
whatever2,882
charlie2,860
f**koff2,794
money2,686
pepper2,656
jessica2,648
asdfasdf2,617
1qaz2wsx2,609
9876543212,606
andrew2,549
qazwsx2,526
dallas2,516
555552,501
1313132,498
abcd12342,489
anthony2,487
steelers2,470
asdfgh2,468
jennifer2,442
killer2,407
cowboys2,403
master2,395
jordan232,390
robert2,372
maggie2,357
looking2,333
thomas2,331
george2,330
matthew2,298
77777772,294
amanda2,273
summer2,263
qwert2,263
princess2,258
ranger2,252
william2,245
corvette2,237
jackson2,227
tigger2,224
computer2,212
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