Adobe password breach shows weak passwords

Jeremi Gosney of the Stricture Group released information about the Adobe security leak that swallowed up millions of user passwords.

Gosney says he found the stolen passwords on one of several online dumps and analyzed them to see which passwords are most-used by Adobe customers.


Password Number of users
1. 123456 1911938
2. 123456789 446162
3. password 345834
4. adobe123 211659
5. 12345678 201580
6. qwerty 130832
7. 1234567 124253
8. 111111 113884
9. photoshop 83411
10. 123123 82694
11. 1234567890 76910
12. 000000 76186
13. abc123 70791
14. 1234 61453
15. adobe1 56744
16. macromedia 54651
17. azerty 48850
18. iloveyou 47142
19. aaaaaa 44281
20. 654321 43670


Adobe is now saying that upward of 150 million people could be at risk.