The hacking of Adobe that compromised tens of millions of accounts is no joke, but at least we can enjoy a little dark humor over users' predictably awful passwords.
The passwords were posted by Jeremi Gosney of Scricture Group, and reported by The Register.
Gosney noted that the list can't be verified in the absence of Adobe's encryption keys. But he said that with Adobe "choosing symmetric key encryption over hashing, selecting ECB mode, and using the same key for every password, combined with a large number of known plaintexts and the generosity of users who flat-out gave us their password in their password hint," he's fairly confident in the list.
Here are the 20 most common passwords, followed by the number of Adobe users who used that password:
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