1.4 Billion Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database

Essence of the whole story lies on last 2 paragraphs.

Lesson:
1. Detonate a public fear bomb.
2. Superhero landing!!!!
 
Its nothing, My country is about to reach 1.4 billion people :eek:
 
Looking through the most common passwords, how in the hell is "homelesspa" the 13th with a count of 600k+? :)
 
Looking through the most common passwords, how in the hell is "homelesspa" the 13th with a count of 600k+? :)
And i guess i'm answering myself this time. :)

It's because of the MySpace breach: "...tables with the top MySpace passwords and the top email domains. Just take note that the first entry, "homelesspa," was automatically generated for a number of accounts that had the same email format, possibly bots or fake users."
http://news.softpedia.com/news/poss...-passwords-for-427-million-users-504583.shtml
 
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