On June 6th, something like 6 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked. At the very least they weren’t storing them in plaintext, but they also didn’t use a particularly great hashing algorithm (SHA1) and they didn’t use any salts, much less a per-user salt. Anyway, you can read more about that other places, this post is about having fun guessing some of the leaked passwords.
I used the LinkedIn compromised password checker from LastPass for this testing rather than leakedin.org because being all ajaxy and web 2.0 it was much faster to test a lot of passwords in a row.
This is not comprehensive in any category (I just messed around until I got bored) and this isn’t meant to prove anything; we already know that people use really bad passwords.
The Most Obvious
- “linkedin”
Some Personal Favorites
- “steveblows”
- “mathsux” (note: “mathsucks” was not found)
- “biodome”
Religious
- “jesusrules”
- “godrules”
- “godgod”
- “jesusjesus”
- “virginmary”
- “saintpaul”
- “stpaul”
- “stpeter”
- “stpatrick”
- “stjoseph”
- “stmichael”
Profanities
- “fuckshit”
- “goddammit”
- “fuckyou”
- “fuck you”
- “fuckingshit”
- “shitbox”
- “asshole”
Drugs
- “weed420”
- “420420”
- “acidacid”
- “lsdlsd”
- “beerbeer”
- “40ounces”
- “40ounce”
- “beerbong”
- “bongbong”
- “hashish”
- “blunts”
- “danknugs”
- “smoke420”
- “smokeweed”
- “mushrooms”
- “angeldust”
- “crackhead”
- “ecstacy”
- “methmeth”
- “drugdealer”
- “heroin”
- “dimebag”
Sexual
- “deepthroat”
- “twogirls”
- “goatse”
- “lemonparty”
- “romney”
- “vagina”
- “penispenis”
Keyboard Patterns
- “qwerty” (obviously)
- “asdfasdf”
- “zxcvzxcv”
- “jkl;jkl;”
- “aqwsaqws”
- “123456”
- “654321”
- “123123”
- “111111”
- \”!@#$%^\”
Things Found On A Desk
- “cocacola”
- “bicpen”
- “printer”
- “sharpie”
- “keyboard”
- “computer”
- “mousemouse”
- “monitor”
- “headphones”
- “mountaindew”
- “coffeecup”
- “beerbottle”
- “lamplamp”
- “uniball”
- “finepoint”
- “binder”
Movies & Movie Stars
- “zetajones”
- “paxton”
- “sigourney”
- “weaver”
- “seanconnery”
- “clooney”
- “keanureeves”
- “stevemartin”
- “chevychase”
- “ilovelamp”
- “anchorman”