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Calin noted that although the list began at 10,028 entries, after cleaning it up and removing accounts without passwords, 9,843 remained. Of those valid entries, 8,931 (90%) had unique passwords. The longest spanned 30 characters (lafaroleratropezoooooooooooooo), while the shortest was only a single character: ).
The most common password was "123456", which appeared on the list 64 times. The password "123456789" was listed 18 times, "alejandra" 11 times, "111111" 10 times, and "alberto" was used on 9 of the accounts. In addition to the first names and number sequences, passwords like "iloveyou" and "america" were also shown to be common.
Calin's statistics show the length distribution of passwords, as well as the types of characters most frequently used. The phishing attack and Calin's figures serve as a reminder that using six zeros as a password is both unsafe, and unoriginal.
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123456, Now Can I Go Have Dinner....?
As someone who has dealt with Verizon customer service in relation to accidental shut offs, failed alias re-points, and lost Email, as a password, "123456", is the quickest way to get off the phone with some imbecile in Pakistan named "Biff"!
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It boggles the mind how careless people are with passwords. These same people are sure to lock their car doors or home doors every time they leave. But properly "lock" their computer apps with a decent password? Can't be bothered....
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i dont think verizon either has their operations or customer support based in Pakistan,and u sure aint gonna find any1 named "Biff"..hehe
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People are stupid....
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Hmmmm, reminds me of Space Balls...
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i dont think verizon either has their operations or customer support based in Pakistan,and u sure aint gonna find any1 named "Biff"..hehePerhaps it was India and his name was "Dante' ".
And just FYI, Verizon DOES farm out certain parts of their internet customer service and sales tasks to Central Asian markets. I heard too many Indian/ Pakistani accents on the phone to ever be convinced otherwise.
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It's almost embarrassing how easy people make it for hackers these days. A simple tool like Deadbolt Password Generator means that remembering passwords is a thing of the past, and at least you won't have the same password for everything.
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oh sure..not just verizon but a lot of the companies do,no disputing that..there's a booming trend that has followed CS outsourcing to south asia...
that reminded me a good ol youtube vid..
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No question about it - Verizon outsources. Their "business" line of services/products are supported in the US though.
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