When you need a password for pretty much everything in your life it’s sometimes easiest to keep it simple.
But it seems more people than you would expect are keeping them a bit too simple.
Each year, SplashData creates a list of the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the past year, then sorts them in order of popularity. This year’s results were based on a total of over 2 million leaked passwords – and yes, they’re for real.
Check it out for yourself (then make a mental note of how not to choose a password).
123456 (Unchanged)
password (Unchanged)
12345678 (Up 1)
qwerty (Up 1)
12345 (Down 2)
123456789 (Unchanged)
football (Up 3)
1234 (Down 1)
1234567 (Up 2)
baseball (Down 2)
welcome (New)
1234567890 (New)
abc123 (Up 1)
111111 (Up 1)
1qaz2wsx (New)
dragon (Down 7)
master (Up 2)
monkey (Down 6)
letmein (Down 6)
login (New)
princess (New)
qwertyuiop (New)
solo (New)
passw0rd (New)
starwars (New)
If your password made the list (really?), you may want to make it a priority to change it.
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