The Ashley Madison hack was without a question one of the most clever and harmful ones because of it’s potential to tear seemingly happy marriages apart, if they haven’t already. Previously we reported about the amount of simple and easy passwords used by Ashley Madison but more analysis shows that some passwords might have a direct correlation when it comes to the cheater’s actual guilt.
“Now CynoSure Prime members are back with a new list highlighting some of the most entertaining passwords found so far among the 11.7 million cracked accounts,” according to Arstechnica.
“With entries including goodguydoingthewrongthing, ishouldnotbedoingthis, thisiswrong, and whatthehellamidoing, the list suggests some of the people felt guilty about setting up accounts on the site, or at least feigned feeling guilty.”
For starters the “goodguydoingthewrongthing” probably means you’re trying to alleviate yourself from doing something wrong while knowing that it’s wrong. Though, this hack has actually be linked to a number of suicide reports. It’s more than some credit card information, it’s destroying lives and in some cases causing people to take their own lives.
“But as Ars chronicled in the 2013 feature How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking, even passwords with 36 or more characters are easy fodder for crackers,” according to the report.
“The lack of capital letters, numbers or special characters made the passphrases especially susceptible, although many of them are so predictable that even a sprinkling of numbers or capital letters couldn’t save them.”
It’s a pricey lesson to learn from but it’s one that every internet user can learn from. How closely do you pay attention to your own passwords?
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