Yahoo's 500 Million User Hack, Russia and Your Passwords

take the second letter as is.

Ya

take the third letter and advance one, two or three steps in the alphabet. We'll go three steps, so hijk. (if it was y you'd go YZAB, and use b)

So we have 35$Yak

You can use the rest of the letters, or not.

But sites want longer passwords. So, add a few numbers you'll remember-- a few digits from your parents old phone number, your first street address at college, your children's birth years or months, the year you graduated, etc.

That gives us 35$Yak1325

Then, at the end, put the first or last or second letter of the domain name, maybe the letter that you changed. In this case, that would be the h in yahoo.

The final result is 35$Yak7846h

The algorithm is:

parent's birth year minus number of characters in domain name

$

First letter upper case

Second letter lower case

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