Top Ten Hacked LinkedIn Passwords...

You've probably heard that millions of LinkedIn password hashes were hacked recently.  Investigators and hackers went right to work on cracking those hashes, and the results are starting to come in.  In particular, the most common hashes have been cracked, and here are the top ten in order, starting with the most common:

link, 1234, work, god, job, 12345, angel, the, ilove, sex

Not exactly a creative bunch!  Several of those I might have guessed within a few minutes.  Probably within a few hours I'd have guessed them all.  I can imagine that many people wouldn't feel particularly concerned about the security of their LinkedIn account – it's not like a bank account or something.  But still – with passwords that weak, there's really not much reason to have a password at all!  And it wouldn't take much effort to do much better...