It's not just that template, it's an "obvious" 3 digit number, a 4 letter dictionary word, and "123" with shift held down. If you had some sort of statistical password ordering it wouldn't be that far down the list.
You mention "123" with the shift down and that in itself gives us a clue about it's possible origins. If the last part was shifted `123` on a UK keyboard then it would be `!"£`. So apart from USA layout keyboards, what other keyboard layouts country wise yeild a the same result from shifted 123. Still does not prove anything, but certainly is something to be mindful of. Either way I know I can sleep at night.
On the other hand, I know several Swedish programmers (here in Sweden) who do programming on a US keyboard. In part because it's more difficult to get the {}[], etc. keys with a Swedish keyboard. I suspect the same might be true with other nationalities.
I will exclude France and Germany if the (Shift-123) is different from French/German layout, but otherwise a lot of programmers (power users) use the US layout. Esp. if we are speaking about people of certain age who maybe have started when DOS was cool.
you're right. and just to clarify for others the crackers can try certain digits (or doubles) before others and include common patterns (like 123) and transformations (like holding shift down).
