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Most common password for Gawker users is 123456

 

Gawker was recently compromised and had its source code and user passwords leaked onto the web. The Wall Street Journal has published a list of the top 50 passwords with the #1 password being '123456'.

The full list can be found at http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/12/13/the-top-50-gawker-media-passwords/

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Very interesting... if you are a hacker...

I smell there will a lot of new bots which will try to enter some accounts with these data.

Strong passwords, it is the only way.

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