The password you use for online accounts is so ultrasecret that not even the magical powers of Criss Angel or Tom Cruise could summon it. But security experts say most of your online compatriots don't take the same care when choosing their secret code.

Research involving 28,000 passwords that were recently stolen and posted online indicates that most people are making it pretty easy for identity thieves by having really common passwords protecting their personal information. The study found that 16 percent of people used a first name; 14 percent took easy-to-remember keyboard combinations like "1234" or "QWERTY"; 5 percent used names of children's TV shows and characters such as "Pokemon," "Matrix," and "Ironman"; and 4 percent were simply the word "password" or "password1."

Some less expected but still insecure passwords expressed a startling lack of regard for the entire password process, such as "I don't care," "Whatever," "Yes" or "No."

Experts say a safe password "is longer than eight characters with one capital letter and one symbol." And, as Dark Helmet pointed out in "Spaceballs," if you've got some combination of 1,2,3,4,5, your pin code is the same as the luggage combinations of idiots all over the universe.

Criminal activity such as identity theft always makes us a little uneasy, unless it's perpetrated by ladies like those in the gallery below.

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    This photo provided by Val Verde, Texas, County Sheriff's Office shows one-time NFL cheerleader and reality TV bride-to-be Mary Delgado who is out of jail after being arrested in a Del Rio, Texas, bar, Sunday, Nov 16, 2008. Delgado, who accepted a televised proposal from "The Bachelor," or professional bass fisherman Byron Velvick, in 2004, was arrested in Del Rio early Sunday after refusing to leave a local bar. She was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, public intoxication, and resisting arrest and released about an hour later.

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    Before they were famous, Hugh Hefner's new twin girlfriends Karissa and Kristina Shannon, 19, were arrested in 2007 after a bar fight. Double your pleasure, double your felony aggravated battery.

    She really has that "girl next cell" quality, don't you think?

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    Hey baby, why the long face?

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    So sultry. She must've been booked for a crime of passion.

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    We know this type. Crazy and crazy in bed. You want to break up with her, but you're afraid of her reaction. We don't blame you.

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    If you want to impress the jury it helps to button up your housecoat.

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    Is it us, or does she look like Eva Longoria's naughty little sister? Score!

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    Hello, kitty! Bringing cute back to the booking room.

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    A former child beauty pageant star, Karen still loved having her picture made, regardless of where it was.

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