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September 8, 2015 08:26 pm GMT

Ashley Madison account passwords are even dumber than you'd expect

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Gentlemen of the Internet: It's 2015. You know never to use "123456" or "password" or anything similarly dumb when you log into anything, right? Least of all a service that has the power to endanger your marriage

But that is apparently what millions of the Ashley Madison account holders, now victims of a massive hack, chose to do. These men — and yes, the active users were nearly all men — protected their accounts with passwords so simple, their spouses would not exactly have to be Nancy Drew to crack their darkest secrets

See also: 30 million AshleyMadison users, mapped

Worse is what happens when you scroll down the list of common Ashley Madison passwords, which was put together by security software company Avast. (A caveat: Avast didn't crack the encryption on all of the 36 million passwords from the Ashley Madison database, an intensive process Avast said would take until "the heat death of the universe." It just took the first million and ran them through the "500 worst passwords" compiled from the results of previous hacks.) Read more...

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