Security Experts Unlock 15 Million Ashley Madison Passwords
Just more evidence that the password authentication system is antiquated and insecure.
Despite overwhelming evidence that our passwords are too weak, and that password authentication is easily exploited, users and companies don’t seem to be taking any corrective action. The recent Ashley Madison hack shows us again, that users are incredibly lazy when it comes to creating passwords.
Research firm CynoSure Prime was able to efficiently crack the encryption hashes, and decrypt more than 11 million usernames and passwords, giving them access to the majority of the account details that were leaked.
And as we usually see when passwords are analysed, the top passwords included “123456,” “password,” and “DEFAULT.”
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