Someone Cracked 4000 Ashley Madison Passwords, And Loads of Them Are Awful

As catastrophic as the hack of extramarital affairs site Ashley Madison is, it could have been a lot worse. Although the email addresses of a purported 37 million users were leaked online, at least their passwords were hashed. But for some that might not be much of a reassurance. One researcher claims to have cracked around 4,000 passwords from the data dump, and it looks like many of them are just terrible. The top two passwords in the sample, perhaps unsurprisingly, were "123456" and "password...