Well I found an interesting article from Acutenix
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An anonymous user posted usernames and passwords of over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to a web site called PasteBin. PasteBin is currently down for maintenance but I managed to get a copy of the list, and quickly generated some statistics from these passwords.
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Top 20 most common passwords:- 123456 - 64
- 123456789 - 18
- alejandra - 11
- 111111 - 10
- alberto - 9
- tequiero - 9
- alejandro - 9
- 12345678 - 9
- 1234567 - 8
- estrella - 7
- iloveyou - 7
- daniel - 7
- 000000 - 7
- roberto - 7
- 654321 - 6
- bonita - 6
- sebastian - 6
- beatriz - 6
- mariposa - 5
- america - 5
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Acutenix
Statistics from 10,000 leaked Hotmail passwords
Zeroday
Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak
fault: It was plain human error ( weak password ) and stupidity ( phising link )