The most common passwords!
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32 Million passwords were analyzed at rockyou.com and these were the top 20
To put it a different perspective, if a hacker used the first 116 password on each account, they would break into 5% of the accounts. With the first 5000 passwords tried on each account, they’d break into 20% of the accounts!
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