Many of the hacked Gawker passwords were childishly simple

Readers of the recently hacked Gawker websites must be dumb, lazy or naïve.

The Wall Street Journal has posted the most commonly used passwords by Gawker users.

The top 15 passwords were:

1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345678
4. lifehack
5. qwerty
6. 123abc
7. 111111
8. monkey
9. consumer
10. 12345
11. 0
12. letmein
13. trustno 1
14. dragon
15. 1234567

Although most of the passwords were childishly simple, the user of number 11, the single digit "0" deserves the booby prize.

Number 13 "trustno 1" was Special Agent Mulder's password on "The X-Files."

The report at the link below lists the top 50 passwords. None of the 50 could be classed as secure passwords.

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