75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email 278
wiredmikey writes "Over 250,000 user names, email addresses, and passwords used for social networking sites can easily be found online. A study of the data collected showed that 75 percent of social networking username and password samples collected online were identical to those used for email accounts. The password data was gathered from blogs, torrents, online collaboration services and other sources. It was found that 43 percent of the data was leaked from online collaboration tools while 21 percent of data was leaked from blog postings. Meanwhile, torrents and users of other social hubs were responsible for leaking 10 percent and 18 percent of user data respectively...."
Re:Passwords (Score:5, Funny)
My password is IAMGAY. That way, even if it got found out I can be confident no one will want to use it, because that would mean they are gay.
Re:"Leaked"? (Score:1, Funny)
Hax0red sites!
Re:Passwords (Score:5, Funny)
As it turns out.... (Score:5, Funny)
Dilbert (Score:5, Funny)
Counterbalance (Score:5, Funny)
What if they are gay? ;)
That's why his usernames are all something along the lines of "IAM_NOT_GAY"
It's a sort of psychosexual firewall. Only someone who can embrace being gay and not gay at once may pass.
Or Pat.
Re:Passwords (Score:5, Funny)
hunter2
Re:Counterbalance (Score:4, Funny)
So, as a bisexual I am uniquely suited to compromise this persons account.
Re:Passwords (Score:2, Funny)
See, i only see *******, i love this slashdot security mechanism. you could not see the guy password :D