IHG Was Hacked Using Password “Qwerty1234”

loyaltylobby.com ^ | September 17, 2022 | John Ollila

[BipolarBob]

They stole my password!

[Dalberg-Acton]

My password is “password”.
People say no one is stupid enough to use that for their password.
But they’re wrong about that. 🤨

[smokingfrog]

I always use strongpassword and haven’t been hacked yet.

[roving]

I use my ship and hull number on some sites

[entropy12]

I use name of my dog who died 18 years ago.

[Larry Lucido]

IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group
IHG In His Grip (Christianity)
IHG International Holdings Group (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
IHG Iris Hypoplasia with Glaucoma
IHG International Hockey Gang (sports forum)
IHG Incident Handling Guide (security)

[dfwgator]

[Rurudyne]

Beat me to the punch!

[LibWhacker]

Anyone who would use that as a password is a COMPLETE imbecile. Hard to feel much sympathy for them.

[Bikkuri]

No one would ever use my username: admin....
😉

[texas booster]

From Tom’s Hardware:

2022:

123456
123456789
qwerty
password
12345
12345678
111111
1234567
123123
qwerty123
1q2w3e
1234567890
DEFAULT
000000
abc123
654321
123321
qwertyuiop
Iloveyou
666666

Let’s just say that none of these top 20 (and there are lots more) should ever be used - even with a ‘!’ at the end.

[SaveFerris]

LOL 😅

[texas booster]

Yep, it’s the parent for Holiday Inn.

My account was hacked years ago, when someone used 300,000 of my points to book a week in Tokyo.

No two factor authentication available back then.

I can’t imagine what a week in Tokyo costs nowadays, what with the massive point deflation.

[KarlInOhio]

My account was hacked years ago, when someone used 300,000 of my points to book a week in Tokyo.

And I'm still angry about someone using my restaurant points to order a couple baskets of wings.

[texas booster]

When we will need 2FA to secure our Chili’s or BWW accounts, you know that things have gotten out of hand.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

But $tr0nGp@$sw3rd would be ok.

That is a pass phrase. I always use passphrases with character and number substitutions. After a few uses, you can recall the substitutions.

[Falconspeed]

I learned in 1995 from Leo Laporte, the Tech Guy, to always use a password manager and to never learn one’s passwords.

[from occupied ga]

They should have used a stronger password and then pasted it on 200,000 sticky notes stuck to the undersides of keyboards

[Valpal1]

I use a friend’s old landline number from the eighties. Dialed it a million times, so it’s a physical memory.