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by David Goldman @DavidGoldmanCNN June 9, 2016: 9:14 AM ET
My hack stole your credit card
My hack stole your credit card
In Mel Brooks’ 1987 spoof “Spaceballs,” there was a recurring joke about the
incredibly weak passcode “12345.”
“That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! That’s
the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!”
Thirty years later, people are still using incredibly idiotic
passwords, even to protect their sensitive data and accounts.
In a massive recent theft of Twitter usernames and passwords involving
nearly 33 million customers, “123456” was by far the most commonly used
passcode, according to security company LeakedSource. More than 120,000
people whose credentials were hacked had used “123456” as their Twitter
(TWTR, Tech30) password.
That was followed by “123456789,” “qwerty,” “password,” and a host of
other easily guessable passwords (including Spaceballs’ “12345”).
LeakedSource revealed Wednesday that a hacker who goes by the
moniker Tessa88 stole 32,888,300 Twitter credentials. LeakedSource
found the database on an online black market, and Tessa88 was trying to
sell it for 10 bitcoins (about $6,000).
Twitter says it is “confident” its systems weren’t breached — it’s
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