A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found that “123456? was the most commonly used password, appearing 64 times. Read more here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/10000-passwords/ This is not very surprising since most people find it difficult to remember their passwords. A lot of people I know write down their passwords on a post-it near their workstations easily found by others. If you can not remember your password and you need to write it down somewhere, place it is a safe place where others will not easily find it.
Most common Hotmail password.
A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found that “123456? was the most commonly used password, appearing 64 times. Read more here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/10000-passwords/ This is not very surprising since most people find it difficult to remember their passwords. A lot of people I know write down their passwords on a post-it near their workstations easily found by others. If you can not remember your password and you need to write it down somewhere, place it is a safe place where others will not easily find it.