This week it was disclosed more than 30000 e-mail accounts. Someone posted on the Internet accounts and passwords to them. Among the compromised web mail services were Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Comcast, and Earthlink. Bogdan Calin (Bogdan Calin) was able to extract a list of 10,028 boxes, exposed first, and analyze it.

Calin said that, although the list of "firsts" were 10028 records, after removal from the accounts without passwords left 9843 records. Of these entries, 8931 (90%) had a unique password. The longest, at 30 characters, was the password lafaroleratropezoooooooooooooo, while the shortest was the password of one character . The most common password was "123456", which appeared in the list 64 times. In second place the password "123456789", used 18 times, then the password "alejandra" ─ 11 times, "111111" ─ 10 times, and "alberto", used 9 times. Quite often also used passwords, such as "iloveyou" and "America”. Approximately half of the passwords used only lowercase letters of the Latin alphabet, and only 6% of cases were used letters, numbers and other characters interspersed.

Statistics Calin shows the distribution of the lengths of passwords, and also the most normally used types of passwords. Phishing attacks and data Calin careless users may serve as a reminder that the use of six zeros as the password is also dangerous, as unoriginal.