Admittedly RockYou were already well known to be technically incompetent,
and fell to a simple SQL injection apparently.

But what is interesting is the stats on use password choices. Simply put, if
a user can they will.

http://www.imperva.com/docs/WP_Consumer_Password_Worst_Practices.pdf

Enjoy

 

PS It got worse, they were also storing third party passes:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/rockyou-hack-security-myspace-facebook-
passwords/

K

 

 

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