The top 50 woeful passwords exposed by the Adobe. RockYou was the first real glimpse we got at how users select passwords on a massive scale. This leak is. By now, we all know that Adobe leaked roughly 150 million user passwords last week after a data breach occurred as a result of a hacking attack. What you might not know is that you can actually check to see if your Adobe account was among the many that were compromised by the infiltrators. Nov 15, 2013 Adobe's been embarrassed over the past few weeks after it was revealed that some 150 million customer records were leaked online — and that Adobe had.
It’s well-known that people often pick easy to remember but easy to crack passwords to protect their accounts. Thanks to the work of one password expert, it's now thought that millions of Adobe customers were among those with a taste for terrible passwords too. Adobe recently revealed that the security breach which affected the company last month turned out to have involved at rather than the. But the 38 million figure only related to active accounts. Along with the source code for products such as ColdFusion, the hackers made off with and published a file that contained over more than million user records for inactive as well as active accounts, which included more than 130 million encrypted passwords. Can Dbc File Viewer here.
Read this • • • • • Although Adobe has said the passwords were encrypted, it appears the way Adobe did that was not enough to prevent passwords expert and founder of the security firm Stricture Consulting Group, Jeremi Gosney, from deriving them to reveal the most commonly used passwords, which, spanning around six million or just under five percent of the 130 million password list. (How he derived them is explained below.) The most popular password, used by nearly two million Adobe customers, is '123456'. There aren't any surprises there though; the Yahoo leak of last year, and other similar breaches, have also revealed the same password as a user favourite. The others in the Adobe top 10 are equally poor. The second most popular was '123456789', used for 446,162 accounts, followed by 'password' common to 345,843 accounts, 'adobe123' used in 211,659 accounts, '12345678' used for 201,580 accounts, followed by 'qwerty', '1234567', '111111', 'photoshop' and '123123'. Gosney notes that since he doesn't have the key Adobe used to encrypt the passwords of 130,324,429 users — and since Adobe is still blocking access to its services until owners reset their passwords — it's impossible to say with certainty that the list is entirely accurate, but he says he's nonetheless 'fairly confident' of its accuracy.