Interesting stats on SONY’s hacked passwords
In 2011 SONY’s Playstation network got hacked, 77 million accounts have been compromised, and more than 1.000.000 passwords – saved in plain text (!) and/or easily “hackable” MD5 hashes – have been published.
Troy Hunt has made a very interesting analysis of these passwords, including some stats on password-reuse. Worth reading for everbody who’s interesting in passwords:
http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/06/brief-sony-password-analysis.html
This article was written quite a while ago (5 years), please keep this in mind when using the information written here. Links, code and commands might be outdated or broken.
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