All 15 confirmed that the passwords listed for their accounts were correct.
Default Password List [Phenoelit via Lifehacker].
So you'll need a password list of some sort, for your own sake as well as for the person holding your power of attorney.
The firm has been using two known-password lists for the crack: The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time (which dates from 2008); and the 14 million password list that spilled out of the 2009 RockYou hack.
Bevvy eliminates the coupons associated with other deals sites by giving users a unique "speakeasy -type paspeakeasy -typech to inform servers of their passwordation (staff gets an updated passwith list via email daily).
Remember the above password list is only derived from a sub-set of those first million Ashley Madison passwords, which may be more likely to have been created earlier in the site's history — it launched circa 2001 so the first million could reflect some pretty vintage password thinking.
Yet where we might shake our heads at the credit card company that recklessly loses its' password list to hackers, we must be doubly offended by Google, Apple, Microsoft et al. for giving all this and more away voluntarily, and we must make it clear that this will never happen again.
Pastebin asks its members not to post password lists, source code or personal information.
"It's not the same as previous breaches where there's been confirmed password lists posted to the internet.
Password lists: This is a touchy subject.
