Michael Tyler

In case you didn’t know, in amongst the celebrity deaths, and the unraveling of the NWO bandwagon, 2016 was also a bumper year for hackers. Some of the biggest and most audacious hacks in history took place in 2016, including the hacking of the US elections, and the Mirai botnet DDOS attack, which took down some of the biggest sites on the internet including Amazon, Facebook and Twitter.

There have been the largest hacks of personal information in history. Also in 2016. Names such as Yahoo, with billions of accounts compromised.

So here’s my little run-down.

2016 – A year in hacking.

5) Adultfriendfinder hack – November 14th, 2016

Friend Finder Network Inc is a company that operates a wide range of 18+ services and was hacked in November of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20 years of customer data.

A list of sites verified and how many affected accounts and a brief description:

• Adultfriendfinder.com
  339,774,493 users
  “World’s largest sex & swinger community”
• Cams.com
  62,668,630 users
  “Where adults meet models for sex chat live through webcams”
• Penthouse.com
  7,176,877 users
  Adult magazine akin to Playboy
• Stripshow.com
  1,423,192 users
  Another 18+ webcam site
• iCams.com
  1,135,731 users
  “Free Live Sex Cams”
• Unknown domain
  35,372 users

Total: 412,214,295 affected users

Most of the passwords hacked from the Friendfinder network were stored either as plain text, or lightly encrypted, (in the SHA1 protocol).

Once the accounts were modified and the encrypted passwords hacked, they were made available for sale on the Darkweb.

Here’s a list of the passwords most commonly used:-

Rank	Password	Frequency
1	123456	900,420
2	12345	635,995
3	123456789	585,150
4	12345678	145,867
5	1234567890	133,414
6	1234567	112,956
7	password	101,046
8	qwerty	86,050
9	qwertyuiop	43,755
10	987654321	40,627
11	123123	39,614
12	111111	38,848
13	pussy	37,938
14	fuckme	36,008
15	asdfghjkl	35,021
16	000000	34,631
17	fuckyou	34,498
18	abc123	34,080
19	00000	33,796
20	11111	33,263
21	55555	31,524
22	54321	31,278
23	123452	30,111
24	654321	29,624
25	pwd1234	28,061
26	zxcvbnm	27,237
27	iloveyou	24,155
28	qwert	22,499
29	666666	21,629
30	asdfg	20,696
31	0123456789	20,485
32	azerty	19,700
33	0987654321	19,641
34	france	19,559
35	abcd1234	19,056
36	password1	18,677
37	fffff	18,461
38	112233	18,152
39	696969	18,150
40	123321	17,703
41	121212	17,302
42	asdfgh	16,400
43	football	16,080
44	12345678910	16,054
45	abcde	15,789
46	qwerty123	15,286
47	1qaz2wsx	14,885
48	123123123	14,691
49	pakistan	14,173
50	aaaaa	13,543

Source: Leaked source.
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