In 2015, SplashData, a password management company, reviewed over 2 million leaked passwords from Western European and North American Internet users and came up with this list of the 25 most insecure and most popular passwords.
- 1. 123456
- 2. password
- 3. 12345678
- 4. qwerty
- 5. 12345
- 6. 123456789
- 7. football
- 8. 1234
- 9. 1234567
- 10. baseball
- 11. welcome
- 12. 1234567890
- 13. abc123
- 14. 111111
- 15. 1qaz2wsx
- 16. dragon
- 17. master
- 18. monkey
- 19. letmein
- 20. login
- 21. princess
- 22. qwertyuiop
- 23. solo
- 24. passw0rd
- 25. starwars
SplashData has put forward these suggestions for creating passwords:
- a. Use eight characters or more
- b. Include different types of characters (letters, numbers, symbols)
- c. Do not use the same username and password combinations for different websites
- d. Use a password manager to protect your passwords and to help you generate passwords that are random and difficult for others to guess correctly.
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