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Should I Change My Password? LulzSec E-mail Hack Proves We're Lousy at Picking Passwords. Whether you think LulzSec is doing us a favor for exposing our security weaknesses or think the hacker group has gone too far, a very old lesson can be learned here: we need to create stronger passwords. New analysis of the 62,000 logins LulzSec made publicly available reveals, yet again, our seriously weak password habits. This certainly isn't the first time we've seen how poor some of our passwords are. Last January, one study revealed the most typical passwords used by the 32 million accounts hacked on RockYou.com were "123456" and "password". In December, analysis of 188,279 passwords stolen from Gawker showed those two passwords again as the most commonly used. The top passwords from the LulzSec dump, according to an analysis by programmer Aviv Ben-Yosef? Other top passwords from the LulzSec sample contained common words like "romance" and mystery," perhaps revealing also some users' desire for thing whole login thing to be less mundane.

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