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by irunbackwards 3679 days ago
Why is "homelesspa" the most common password?

Edit: Just read the article, most likely bots.

1 comments

https://www.leakedsource.com/blog/myspace

> Due to some accounts having two passwords, there are 427,484,128 total passwords for only 360 million users. Additionally, the accounts with password "homelesspa" seem to be automatically generated as all the emails that use this password follow the same format. We also suspect given the number of passwords with a 1 at the end, MySpace required numbers and letters at some point.