These Top 30 Ashley Madison Passwords are just as Terrible as You’d Think

Yes, you heard it correct! First the Password Cracking Team ‘CynoSure Prime’ cracked more than 11 Million Ashley Madison’s passwords in just 10 days (quite an achievement, though), now a member of the team shares the same list of passwords with few calculations. The calculations are… …What passwords are mostly used and by how many users? Terrible?…

Yes, you heard it correct!

First the Password Cracking Team ‘CynoSure Prime’ cracked more than 11 Million Ashley Madison’s passwords in just 10 days (quite an achievement, though), now a member of the team shares the same list of passwords with few calculations.

The calculations are…

…What passwords are mostly used and by how many users? Terrible?

Out of 11 million passwords, only 4.6 million passwords were unique, and the rest were such weak and horrible ones that one could even think.

ArsTechnica to whom CynoSure Prime updated the news published the calculations and say that this is expected to change as they still left with 3.7 million passwords to decrypt.

While going through the list of password, top 5 used were:

123456 by 120511 users
12345 by 48452 users
password by 39448 users
DEFAULT by 34275 users
123456789 by 26620 users
for more see the list of passwords in above image.

AND, Literally these passwords are even so guessable by a 5th grader!

Further Related Reading:

Ashley Madison Hackers Released All the Stolen Data Online
Hackers Leak 20GB Data Dump, Including CEO’s Emails
Ashley Madison Hacker – An Insider Woman Employee?
List of Top 10 Big Tech Companies where Ashley Madison is very Popular
Disgusting! Ashley Madison was Building an App – ‘What’s your Wife Worth?‘
Lessons We Learned From Ashley Madison Data Breach

Khyati Jain

Researcher and Technical Writer at The Hacker News. An Information Security Consultant and System Auditor, a keen Security Evangelist for all forms of Cyber Security and Denotational Counter Hack Requirements of the Industry, Academia and Society.

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