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‘123456’ Is Still the Most Common Password, So, Congrats Guys

Congratulations are in order, as a year of corporate data spills and leaked Jennifer Lawrence nudes failed to move the most stubborn among us. Privacy be damned, people still enjoy the ease and comfor...
‘123456’ Is Still the Most Common Password, So, Congrats Guys
Written by Josh Wolford
  • Congratulations are in order, as a year of corporate data spills and leaked Jennifer Lawrence nudes failed to move the most stubborn among us. Privacy be damned, people still enjoy the ease and comfort of the most simplistic, easily-sussed passwords imaginable.

    For another year, the most common password was ‘123456’. After that? ‘Password’.

    The data comes from SplashData, who compiles their annual “Worst Passwords” list from over 3.3 million leaked passwords.

    Here’s the top 25 list:

    1. 123456
    2. password
    3. 12345
    4. 12345678
    5. qwerty
    6. 1234567890
    7. 1234
    8. baseball
    9. dragon
    10. football
    11. 1234567
    12. monkey
    13. letmein
    14. abc123
    15. 111111
    16. mustang
    17. access
    18. shadow
    19. master
    20. michael
    21. superman
    22. 696969
    23. 123123
    24. batman
    25. trustno1

    “The bad news from my research is that this year’s most commonly used passwords are pretty consistent with prior years,” security expert Mark Burnett said. “The good news is that it appears that more people are moving away from using these passwords. In 2014, the top 25 passwords represented about 2.2% of passwords exposed. While still frightening, that’s the lowest percentage of people using the most common passwords I have seen in recent studies.”

    Oh good! It’s getting better.

    At this point, if your password is still ‘123456’, ‘baseball’, or ‘batman’, then you deserve whatever happens to you.

    Image via DelcanTM, Flickr Creative Commons

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