This summer has been plagued with password leaks. First it was 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords back in June, and now Yahoo’s said that 400,000 of its e-mail account passwords were snatched.
Obviously nothing good comes from a privacy breach, but there is a certain amusement in seeing which passwords rank among the most popular. Declan McCullagh, who works at CBS, listed the passwords by order of frequency, and Slate published the top 10:
1. password
2. welcome
3. qwerty
4. monkey
5. jesus
6. love
7. money
8. freedom
9. ninja
10. writerÂ
Other interesting facts from McCullagh’s data:
48 = number of times “booty” was used in an email address or password
7,192 = number of times “love” was used in an email address or password
9 = number of times “baby” was used as a password
15 = number of times “hottie” was used as a password
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