![]() Only 12% of the passwords Hakçıl examined contained "special" characters, such as punctuation marks, that are found on common QWERTY keyboards but are not letters or numbers: ? & ^ and so on. (We're not sure why that occurred, but RockYou may have required the inclusion of upper-case letters at some point.) Two others came close but not quite, with "Password" and "Qwerty" appearing in the RockYou Top 20, but "password" and "qwerty" in Hakçıl's Top 20. ![]() The RockYou database's most-used password is also "123456." In fact, of the top 20 old RockYou passwords, entered between 20, seven are also in Hakçıl's brand-new Top 20 list: 123456, 12345, 123456789, iloveyou, 1234567, 12345678 and abc123. Same old songīut that's still far outweighed by the bad news. ![]() UPDATE: We played with the RockYou statistics in this report from Imperva and came up with an average RockYou password length of roughly 7.41 characters.
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