An attacker compromised hundreds of accounts by trying a single popular password
Study: A Hacker’s Guess
Date: September 8 2014 An organization had evidence of a fraudster attempting access to 145,000 different user accounts with one password -- the result was successful access to 434 of those accounts with the popular password. PasswordResearch.com Comment: This attack is known as horizontal password guessing. <-- Back to Authentication Statistic Index |