The Hotmail hack attack this week has laid bare the woeful password choices of web users, as reports emerged that up to 1 million web email accounts could have been compromised.
The most common password was “123456″, while many users had names or dates of birth – all easy pickings for the determined password cracker.
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The scale of the phishing attack on Hotmail could stretch further than first thought, with accounts on Google and Yahoo now threatened.
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that the popular email site had been the target of a scam which tricked users into revealing their passwords. This led to around 10,000 passwords being posted online.
The computer company [...]