A Brief Sony Password Analysis

troyhunt writes "With all this [Sony] customer data now unfortunately out there for public viewing, I thought it would be interesting to do some analysis on password practices. There are some rather alarming (although not entirely surprising) findings including: 36% of passwords appear in a common password dictionary. 50% of passwords are 7 characters or less. 67% of accounts on both Sony and Gawker use the same password. 82% of passwords are lowercase alphanumeric of 9 characters or less. 99% of passwords don't contain a single non-alphanumeric character."

My password is

[Anonymous Coward]

'); DROP TABLE Password;

Re:My password is

[snookerhog]

Bobby, is that you?

Re:hunter2

[MacGyver2210]

There weren't any passwords listed in the sony data as ******* - as you typed it. If you can write the actual password instead of the masked version I could tell you for sure...