In yet another example of password stupidity, a recently released list of hacked passwords showed that “123456″ was still popular.

Last year RockYou was hacked and millions of passwords stolen.  The list made its way on to the Web, and beyond hackers downloading the list were security experts who wanted to study it.  From that list they came up with the 32 most popular passwords on the site, which you can see to the right.

Apparently some need lessons in how to pick a password.

According to The New York Times, it wasn’t just these 32 that bothered security experts, but the fact that around 20% of the passwords came from a pool of only 5,000 passwords.

There was another similar story recently about how Twitter has a list of 370 passwords you can’t use, and that seems like something every site should be doing as evidenced by this list.  If a password is easy for you to remember, that also means it is easy to hack.  The fact that some people have used a password of “0″ is just mind boggling to me.

Two sites now have revealed their passwords, and both sites have shocked us with the stupidity of the passwords people choose.  Does no one care about identity theft?  Does no one care about protecting their data?

Take the time, educate yourself on how to create a stronger password and start using them today!