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Comment by martin-adams | Hacker News Reader

Just looking at the haveibeenpwned.com it links to the cryptically poor Adobe password were. I am fascinated by how popular certain passwords are: http://stricture-group.com/files/adobe-top100.txt

It appears some random words aren't necessarily random. Words like 'shadow' and '1q2w3e4r'.

Fascinating!

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The top ten passwords in the in the adobe hack account for 2.8% of all passwords. About 1/35 used one of ten passwords. That's frightening to think about. Thanks for the share.

You can probably get even more correlation if you account for "l33tspeak" i.e. swapping letters for numbers that look like them.

    password => p455w0rd
    password => passw0rd

Don't forget adding ! or 101 and so on to the end of a password and capitalizing the first letter. "Password1!" is likely to pass complexity and length requirements quite well.

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