{"id":2237,"date":"2012-01-22T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2012-01-22T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T15:58:34","slug":"popular-malaysian-passwords-sample-size75000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/01\/22\/popular-malaysian-passwords-sample-size75000","title":{"rendered":"Popular Malaysian passwords (sample size=75,000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that about <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/me\/2012\/01\/21\/pro-israeli-hacker-posts-what-he-says-are-log-in-details-for-100000-facebook-accounts\/\">100,000 most likely Malaysian Facebook accounts have been cracked<\/a>. Well their passwords are available for all to see in pastebin. Upon checking, I only saw a little over 75,000 since the third file has been compromised. From that sample, I quickly derived that the most popular Malaysian passwords are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>123456<\/li>\n<li>sayang<\/li>\n<li>brokenheart<\/li>\n<li>123456789<\/li>\n<li>rozaliqa75<\/li>\n<li>effaluve<\/li>\n<li>akucintaallah<\/li>\n<li>zzz999<\/li>\n<li>pradeebkumar123$%<\/li>\n<li>12345678<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The least popular ones in that sample set include having spaces, hashes, brackets, and more. So there are some secure ones!<\/p>\n<p>Using one&#8217;s phone number seems to also be popular. Sometimes appending or pre-pending a string (like a name) to it. Using birthdays seems to also be quite common, sometimes also appending or pre-pending a string like a name to it.<\/p>\n<p>And for those wanting to &#8220;further analyse&#8221; the dataset yourself, I just quickly used standard Unix tools, and you can do it too.<\/p>\n<pre>grep \"Password:\" part_* | awk -F\":\" '{print $3}'| sort | uniq -c |sort -n\n<\/pre>\n<p>Pipe to <tt>less<\/tt>, use <tt>head<\/tt>\/<tt>tail<\/tt>, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that about 100,000 most likely Malaysian Facebook accounts have been cracked. Well their passwords are available for all to see in pastebin. Upon checking, I only saw a little over 75,000 since the third file has been compromised. From that sample, I quickly derived that the most popular Malaysian passwords are: 123456 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[297,981],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-facebook","tag-password"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}