Stealing password is a Frequent thing now. By Social Engineering, Phishing or some other way. Some of the people guess the password and get it.
Here is a Statistics on 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular US website.
16 percent took a first name as a password, often their own or one of their children.
14 percent relied on the easiest keyboard combinations to remember such as “1234″ or “12345678.” For those using English keyboards, “QWERTY”, was popular. Likewise, “AZERTY” scored with people with European keyboards.
5 percent of the stolen passwords were names of television shows or stars popular with young people like “hannah,” inspired by singer Hannah Montana. “Pokemon,” “Matrix,” and “Ironman” were others.
4 percent used word “password,” or easy to guess variations like “password1,”.
3 percent of the passwords expressed attitudes like “I don’t care,” “Whatever,” “Yes” or
There were sentimental choices — “Iloveyou” — and their opposite — “Ihateyou.”
Statistics Published by Robert Graham of the company Errata Security.
