What’s the most common password among people whose accounts were hacked?

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"What's the most common password among the 32 million people whose accounts were hacked at RockYou late last year? According to a study by Imperva, it's '123456,' followed by '12345,' '123456789¿' and 'Password,' in that order," a post on TechCrunch claims. The study, titled "Consumer Password Worst Practices," is available here.

Further, the post stated, "The really depressing thing is that users tend to use the same passwords on all or most of their work and personal accounts. This is what caused the 2009 Twitter document hack. Once the hacker broke in to a single employee's gmail account, he was running free and eventually got access to a lot of sensitive corporate information."

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