Revealed: The most commonly used passwords in hacked accounts... and 'password' is one of them

Revealed: The most commonly used passwords in hacked accounts. In the wake of a security breach at Yahoo a Slovakian IT security company has released a list of the most commonly used passwords for hacked accounts. The security breach happened on Wednesday when a hacker group has posted online the details of 450,000 user accounts and passwords it claimed to have stolen from a Yahoo server. A hacker group posted online the details of 450,000 user accounts and passwords it claimed to have stolen from a Yahoo server The Ars Technica technology news website reported that the group, which calls itself D33DS Company, hacked into an unidentified subdomain of Yahoo's website where they retrieved unencrypted account details.