The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords

On Sunday night, hackers posted online a trove of data from Gawker Media’s servers, including the usernames, email addresses and passwords of more than one million registered users.

It was quite interesting to see the most commonly used passwords. It could be argued that a blog site does not require a strong password, but I think it is time to improve the built-in password managers in web browsers to generate new passwords for every site when needed, like 1Password currently can do.

And why are the passwords encrypted to begin with? Had they been salted and hashed, the passwords would have never come out in the first place, even if someone managed to steal the database.