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Leaked Hotmail Account Credentials Reveal Weak Password Trends An analysis of the around 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail passwords that have been exposed in the wild has concluded that the majority of users still employ weak passwords. The average password length is eight characters, but only 6% of them contain both alpha-numeric and special characters.A few days ago, Microsoft conf... 7 October 2009 05:17 GMT