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Example:

Username: mickael

Password: mickael69

EDIT: Just to be more precise, there is a correlation here, and with so much data a lot can be known. Patterns can then be forbidden from password fields so the website is less prone to dictionary attacks.




So what would you do here? Disallow "mickael" from the password? That's pretty user-hostile and almost completely pointless.


Is it pointless to reduce the attack vector against your website? And, no, for a banking system, it is not that user-hostile to say things like "we have found that using <pattern> in your password makes it easy for people to guess, please choose a more complicated password".




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