# Ashley Madison subscribers choose Rotten Passwords

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashley-madison-subscribers-choose-rotten-passwords/729071 "2015-08-27T15:13:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashley-madison-subscribers-choose-rotten-passwords/729071/21 "2015-09-10T13:27:39Z")

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I haven’t reread the articles, but as I recall, a significant percentage of the users were just curiosity seekers: people who just registered with fake info to look around and see what was up, but never paid or actually contacted anybody. I wouldn’t be surprised that these kinds of users just used 123456. I’ve used 123456 on plenty of web sites that wouldn’t let me browse until I “registered.”

I would be more interested in what percentage of the paid users used weak passwords.

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