eBay Japan Passwords Revealed As Username+123456

mask.of.sanity (1228908) writes "eBay Japan created passwords for accounts based on a combination of a username plus a static salt, allowing anyone with knowledge of it to access any account, a researcher reported. The salt, which should have been random, used was the combination '123456', which was reported as last year's worst password." Complete with visual aids.

Hey

[CheezburgerBrown .]

That's the same password as my luggage!

Obligatory

[hey!]

....That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

I'm sorry, what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you not get to change your eBay password... in Japan?

captcha: nipple. OK, that was worth it.

Spaceballs: The Comment!

[broginator]

I too have seen Spaceballs.

wait a minute...

[slashmydots]

Wait so in the US most passwords (and server names and PC names and switch names and domain names) are Anime characters or related to Animes and in Japan they chose 123456? What the hell?

Re:Not salt

[jxander]

We'll call this "just a pinch of salt"

Re:Obligatory

[0racle]

Then code a quality easter egg with full test cases and stellar documentation.