Analyzing 26,000 MySpace Passwords
October 15th, 2006 - By: Alex Bailey
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I made a previous post about Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords, and would like to add some new results to the mix. A blogger stumbled upon my site, and decided to do a little examination of some passwords he found. The results were quite similar to mine leading me to believe these are real results, despite what some of you say about them being fake. Anyways, on to the graphs. We'll start with their age.
So now we know 63% of MySpacers are still in high school. The email address results were nearly identical.
Most MySpacers are female, which isn't too surprising.
84% are straight.
Most passwords were 7 digits with the number "1" appended to the end of them. I'm told MySpace forces a number into a password, so this makes perfect sense.
Most were level 2 strength. If you aren't aware of the scale it's 1 point for cap, 1 for lower, 1 for number, 1 for symbol.
Here are the most common passwords:
password1 - 63
abc123 - 42
iloveyou1 - 19
fuckyou1 - 16
myspace1 - 15
123abc - 14
number1 - 14
password - 13
loser1 - 13
iloveyou! - 13
soccer1 - 13
princess1 - 13
monkey1 - 12
nicole1 - 12
purple1 - 12
qwerty1 - 12
fuckyou - 12
fuckyou2 - 12
iloveyou2 - 12
monkey - 11
Some more cool results thanks to phishers not properly securing their websites.
Why phish MySpace?
It's simple. Look at all those email addresses harvested. Spammers can now send links to their MySpace layout pages, or glitter graphic websites. Not to mention if just 1% of those users used the same email and password with PayPal, that's 260 PayPal emails. They could also use those emails for other phishing scams. The possibilities are really endless.
1. Sam | December 1st, 2006 @ 11:13 AM |
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Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
Anyone having same bother - or anyone how to sort it?
2. Alex Bailey | December 1st, 2006 @ 1:44 PM |
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[quote comment="2993"]Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
Anyone having same bother - or anyone how to sort it?[/quote]
Their homepage works for me, I don’t know about anything else as I refuse to use it.
3. nick | December 22nd, 2006 @ 4:00 PM |
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No the music download is fucked because they have all kinds of precautionary BS that has to connect before one can actually download a song.
4. rosa | January 4th, 2007 @ 6:41 PM |
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i dont think you can say that 63% of myspacers are under 17, as under 17-year-olds are probably more likely to fall for the fake e-mail than older users.
5. Joshua Davis | April 14th, 2007 @ 1:04 AM |
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I wonder how accurate this may be, as the user who may enter a password into a phising site is probably of below average intelligence, considering most browsers warn about this, and the login screens almost always look a bit off.
6. Cintia | May 25th, 2007 @ 5:44 AM |
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i think most of the myspacer’s lie about their age like their older sister/brother’s make a myspace for them and some kids with myspace are like 5 years old but they lie about their age and some are 35 and lie that they are 17! just to get teens to come with them well myspace might be stupid but it’s the only way to chat and meet new friends!
7. Imp | July 1st, 2007 @ 12:16 PM |
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[quote comment="24337"] well myspace might be stupid but it’s the only way to chat and meet new friends![/quote]
It’s called leaving the house and talking to people in real life, try the mall or the library, or a park. If you truely believe that the internet is the only way to met people what about friendster or facebook or livejournal
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