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Twitter’s recent password reset stems from a cyber-criminal selling “special” torrent/forum websites.

Earlier this week, many Twitter users discovered that the social website had reset their passwords. The company said late Tuesday that it noticed a “sudden surge” in followers for a couple of accounts over the last five days. Suspecting foul play, Twitter decided to “take action first and ask questions later” by resetting the passwords of all accounts following the suspicious users.

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Last year, a major security breach at RockYou.com resulted in the release of 32 million passwords. With such a large data set available, security firm Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC) analyzed and found that, when given the chance, most users will choose a simplistic password.

Imperva found that nearly a third of users chose passwords whose length is equal or below six characters and almost 60 percent of users chose their passwords from a limited set of alpha-numeric characters. Almost half of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and so on), with the most common password being “123456″.

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