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Top 12 LinkedIn Passwords Stolen

Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, June 12, 2012

LinkedIn announced last week that 6.5 million of its members’ passwords were stolen in a security breach and posted on an unauthorized web site. The stolen passwords revealed that some passwords people used to log in to the social networking site are too obvious. 

“We are seeing a trend of Internet users trying to use simplistic passphrases on Internet sites,” Marcus Carey, a researcher at the security firm Rapid7, told MSNBC.com. “They are [being hacked] because of the simple fact that many are using words that have been long considered bad passwords. Password-cracking algorithms include these bad passwords as a part of their recipe.”  

Here are the top 12 most common passwords that hackers easily cracked in the LinkedIn security breach, according to Rapid7. 

  1. link (which was commonly used as part of a password, such as “LinkPass” or “BobLink”)
  2. 1234
  3. work
  4. god
  5. job
  6. 12345
  7. angel
  8. :the
  9. ilove
  10. sex
  11. Jesus
  12. connect

Source: “A LinkedIn Leak Lesson: Top 30 Dumb Passwords People Still Use,” MSNBC.com (June 7, 2012)

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