The e-mail service has been the type of hacking is called phishing, as established by which the pirates exact copy of the site and then a financial institution are trying to fool the user access to personal data such as passwords, in his research to dictate the form on the fake website, allowing them to use these data to capture the funds.

The Web site quoted Bogdan Calin, an analyst in the field of electronic security as saying that among the most vulnerable words used are “123456″, “123456789″. Also found that 82 of the user between ten thousand, and put these two formulas, while occupied structures “12345678″ and “1234567″ and “111111″ list of ten most common words.

“The BBC World,” that the list was not free of foreign names are very common, such as “Alberto” and “Alejandra” and “Alejandro”; therefore believed that the process of piracy Calin recent targeting Latinos.

Kalin said that the vast majority of Internet users are still using passwords are very weak, which is the same as that spoken by other experts, who conducted the examination of the stolen data.

He pointed out that Kalin 6% of the passwords contained a mixture of numbers and letters and punctuation marks, and more than 60% of which included letters and numbers only.

It is noteworthy that many experts say the safe words should contain letters and numbers, as well as other marks, and should not include names, dates, and words spoken.

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Google said that less than 500 account for people who use its service has been affected by the process of electronic piracy suffered by the location, adding that she asked the owners of the affected accounts to change their passwords or keys to access their accounts.

Google also revealed a third list of names and passwords that have been affected the accounts of the owners, but did not say how many of those accounts affected.

The program of piracy and the use of electronic fish fake websites to lure users to reveal information such as bank account details or the names of the definition and the secret keys they use to access those accounts.

Commenting on the piracy suffered by Google, said company spokesman: “The recent awakening to the existence of the piracy and catching-mail in which hackers managed to access the information that entitle them to enter the e-mail accounts on the network, including Gmail accounts.”

Was initially thought that the program targets only mentioned piracy service users Hotmail

The spokesman stressed that the process of piracy in question “were not a breach of the Gmail email system”, as it was “piracy to make users provide their own information to hackers.”

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