Over 2m Facebook, Twitter, Gmail accounts compromised in massive hack | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

More than two-million accounts for users of popular online services including Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and Yahoo have been compromised after malware captured, among other things, their login credentials...


...According to Trustwave, the effected accounts didn’t exactly make things difficult for the hackers either. Take a look at the top 10 passwords for the accounts infiltrated by the malware...


Indeed, a whole lot of the passwords used by the infected accounts weren’t exactly what you’d call top-notch. Trustwave grouped the length and type of characters used in the passwords to get a gauge on their complexity and this is what it found...