ASHLEY MADISON TOP 30 PASSWORD USERS PUBLISHED

Ashley Madison is a Canada-based online dating service and social networking service marketed to people who are married or in a committed relationship. Its slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair." The website was launched in 2001.The name of the site was created from two popular female names, "Ashley" and "Madison".


The company received attention on July 15, 2015, after hackers stole all of its customer data—including emails, names, home addresses, sexual fantasies and credit card information—and threatened to post all the data online if Ashley Madison and fellow Avid Life Media site EstablishedMen.com were not permanently closed. By July 22, the first names of customers were released by hackers, with all of the user data released on August 18, 2015. More data (including some of the CEO's emails) was released on August 20, 2015. The release included data from customers who had earlier paid a $19 fee to Ashley Madison to allegedly have their data deleted.The fee was also applied to people who had accounts set up against their will, as a workplace prank, or due to a mistyped email address.

First the Password Cracking Team 'CynoSure Prime' cracked more than 11 Million Ashley Madison’s passwords in just 10 days (quite an achievement, though), now a member of the team shares the same list of passwords with few calculations.

Out of 11 million passwords, only 4.6 million passwords were unique, and the rest were such weak and horrible ones that one could even think.

ArsTechnica to whom CynoSure Prime updated the news published the calculations and say that this is expected to change as they still left with 3.7 million passwords to decrypt.

While going through the list of password, top 5 used were:

• 123456 by 120511 users
• 12345 by 48452 users
• password by 39448 users
• DEFAULT by 34275 users
• 123456789 by 26620 users
• for more see the list of passwords in above image.

AND, Even a 5th grader can literally guess these Passwords!