{"id":16001,"date":"2012-07-12T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T15:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16001"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T15:04:13","slug":"sakerhetsbloggen-does-some-preliminary-analysis-of-yahoos-453000-leaked-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/12\/sakerhetsbloggen-does-some-preliminary-analysis-of-yahoos-453000-leaked-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>S\u00e4kerhetsbloggen<\/em> does some preliminary analysis of Yahoo&#8217;s 453,000 leaked passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve noticed before, there are lots of really, really <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eset.se\/statistics-about-yahoo-leak-of-450-000-plain-text-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\">bad passwords in use<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, <em>Ars Technica<\/em> reported about a leak by \u201cD33ds Company\u201d of more than 450.000 plain-text accounts from a Yahoo service, which is suspected to be Yahoo Voice.<\/p>\n<p>Since all the accounts are in plain-text, anyone with an account present in the leak which also has the same password on other sites (e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc), should assume that someone has accessed their account.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<pre>Total entries = 442773\r\nTotal unique entries = 342478\r\n\r\nTop 10 passwords\r\n123456 = 1666 (0.38%)\r\npassword = 780 (0.18%)\r\nwelcome = 436 (0.1%)\r\nninja = 333 (0.08%)\r\nabc123 = 250 (0.06%)\r\n123456789 = 222 (0.05%)\r\n12345678 = 208 (0.05%)\r\nsunshine = 205 (0.05%)\r\nprincess = 202 (0.05%)\r\nqwerty = 172 (0.04%)<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other bits of password-related idiocy are <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/tag\/passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve noticed before, there are lots of really, really bad passwords in use: Recently, Ars Technica reported about a leak by \u201cD33ds Company\u201d of more than 450.000 plain-text accounts from a Yahoo service, which is suspected to be Yahoo Voice. Since all the accounts are in plain-text, anyone with an account present in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[156,129,58,836,334,283],"class_list":["post-16001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fail","tag-hack","tag-internet","tag-passwords","tag-security","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4a5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16019,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions\/16019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}