Each year SplashData performs a leaked password analysis to find the top 25 stupid passwords. This year, the company had five million passwords to work from, most of them from hack in the US and Europe.
There are many old favorites – including "passwords" – but this year did eleven new list … [19659003] NordVPN
There is no change in the top two. The top track is retained by 1[ads1]23456, while number 2 in the list is password.
Other top 10 places are taken by 12345, 1234567, 12345678 and 123456789. Top 10 finishes with 111111, sunshine, qwerty and iloveyou. 19659002] But eleven new stupid passwords made the 25 best of this year, including "Donald."
"Sorry, Mr. President, but this is not a false news. Use your name or a common name as password is a dangerous decision," says Morgan Slain, CEO of SplashData, Inc. "Hackers have great success using celebrity names , pop culture and sport conditions and simple keyboard patterns to break into accounts online because they know that so many people use the simple, remember combinations. "
The remaining new entries are 111111, sunshine, princess, 666666, 654321,! @ # $% ^ & *, Charlie, aa123456, passwords1 and qwerty123.
The whole list is:
SplashData said it was unexplained why people chose such obvious passwords.
As always, our recommendation is to use a password processing to have strong, unique passwords for each site and app, and always choosing two-factor authentication.
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