This is really scary.  There is apparently a continuous, ongoing attack against NXT looking for weak passwords.  There is no way to know how many hackers are doing this or how much computer horsepower is being directed towards this because the attack can be run offline against a copy of the blockchain.  Every day we are signing up 100 users on average and we are hoping to get many, many more.  NEW USERS ARE NOT BEING TOLD OFTEN ENOUGH OR STRONGLY ENOUGH ABOUT THE IMPORTACE OF A LOOOONG RANDOM PASSWORD.  Every day new users are coming in and using a short password and immediately lose their NXT just like dzarmush did.  

They do not put a happy smile after their experience.

They do not put a happy smile after their experience.  

They do not put a happy smile after their experience.  

I truly believe that one of the biggest threats to NXT is word of mouth about poor security.  "Yeah, I tried to buy some NXT, it was stolen in 42 hours, better steer clear of that coin..."

That kind of talk - and the activities that precipitate it - needs to be nipped in the bud NOW.  We only get a fresh reputation once - and people are losing NXT at an alarming rate, at least to me.

Some day when I am all caught up (ha ha ha) I want to start a Wiki page listing every known past instance of lost NXT and have new users record their experiences on what happened to them in some kind of table.  This is data we need to be accumulating.