Study Publisher: Jason Hong, Hesham Kamel, John Kodumal, Francis Li, James Lin of University of California Berkeley
Study Date: October 11 2000
Study URL: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~sinha/teaching/Infosys271_2000/Passwords/index.html

Study Overview:
Conducted from September 28 - October 6, 2000. Surveys of 125 people conducted in either paper or online electronic formats.

Statistics From This Study:

• 70% of people do not use a unique password for each Web site
• Are people concerned about someone else figuring out their password
• Around 82% of people have forgotten a password used on a Web site
• Frequency of user password changes for Web sites.
• How often do people share passwords for Web sites with other people
• How often do users write down the passwords they use for Web sites
• What actions people take after forgetting a Web site password