Analyzing 26,000 MySpace Passwords
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.
