Leroy
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|  #1 Posted on 17.6.11 1132.45 | Instant Rating: 6.22 | An article by Troy Hunt, analyzing the compromised account information (which, apparently, is now available through BitTorrent).
A brief Sony password analysis (troyhunt.com)
Some real quick gems (I've only had time to glance through this):
• Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext
• only 4% of passwords had three or more character types.
• less than 1% of passwords contained a non-alphanumeric character.
• the top 25 passwords were: seinfeld, password, winner, 123456, purple, sweeps, contest, princess, maggie, 9452, peanut, shadow, ginger, michael, buster, sunshine, tigger, cookie, george, summer, taylor, bosco, abc123, ashley, bailey
• two thirds of people with accounts at both Sony and Gawker reused their passwords.
• 92% of passwords were reused across both PSN and SonyPictures.
• 82% of passwords would easily fall to a basic rainbow table attack.| Promote this thread! |           | carnage
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| #2 Posted on 17.6.11 1156.18 | One quick note about this part:
Originally posted by Leroy
• 92% of passwords were reused across both PSN and SonyPictures.
He does mention in the article that "this database is not directly related to PSN." The 92% of passwords that were reused were both databases realted to the sonypictures.com website. Still a good article and hopefully Sony gets it together. Also, time to change all of my passwords...I guess everyone loves Seinfeld too.  | KJames199
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|  #3 Posted on 17.6.11 1208.04 | Instant Rating: 6.96 | Originally posted by Leroy
• the top 25 passwords were: (...) michael, buster, (...) george
Coincidence or not, I think this is really awesome. | hansen9j
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| #4 Posted on 17.6.11 1228.37 | Instant Rating: 9.56 | Originally posted by carnage
I guess everyone loves Seinfeld too.
Check out "bosco" in there too. Awesome.
Hooch is crazy.
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| #5 Posted on 17.6.11 1642.12 | Instant Rating: 2.77 | | Incredible that people still use "password" even after Hackers warned us not to. | StingArmy
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| #6 Posted on 17.6.11 1703.16 | Instant Rating: 5.45 | Originally posted by Leroy
the top 25 passwords were: ... 9452
Wha? What am I missing here?
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