your facebook password
Saturday, 23 January 2010 11:10 am by noelposted in tech | tags: facebook, password, rockyou, security
rockyou, a service that offers up applications to social networking sites, has been hacked. 30 million user passwords along with the associated e-mail address has been compromised and some has been reportedly been leaked on the net. rockyou has apps in facebook and myspace. if you run applications made by rockyou they highly recommend that you change your password in rockyou and other online accounts that use that e-mail/password combination (presumably associated with rockyou). now.
23 January 2010 9:59 pm at 9:59 pm
This really isn’t surprising. We’d all be amazed how much this wouldn’t happen if people took the extra .5 seconds to add a number or two to the end of their password. Leave the door open and people will come in. Using passwords like “1234″ just isn’t smart.