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Sadly, the password 123456 has emerged as the most common password for the second year in a row. SplashData, a company that provides various password management utilities, compiles an annual list of common passwords by analyzing over five million user records leaked online in 2017.
See top 100 most common passwords here.
If you use any of the passwords listed, you could be at risk for identity theft. How? Because attackers use these same leaked records to build similar lists of leaked passwords, which they then assemble as “dictionaries” for carrying out account brute-force attacks.
Attackers will use the leaked terms, but they’ll also create common variations on these words using simple algorithms. This means that by adding “1” or any other character combinations at the start or end of basic terms, users aren’t improving the security of their password.”
Of five million leaked credentials, here are the top 25 most common passwords:
1 – 123456 (rank unchanged since 2016 list)
2 – password (unchanged)
3 – 12345678 (up 1)
4 – qwerty (Up 2)
5 – 12345 (Down 2)
6 – 123456789 (New)
7 – letmein (New)
8 – 1234567 (Unchanged)
9 – football (Down 4)
10 – iloveyou (New)
11 – admin (Up 4)
12 – welcome (Unchanged)
13 – monkey (New)
14 – login (Down 3)
15 – abc123 (Down 1)
16 – starwars (New)
17 – 123123 (New)
18 – dragon (Up 1)
19 – passw0rd (Down 1)
20 – master (Up 1)
21 – hello (New)
22 – freedom (New)
23 – whatever (New)
24 – qazwsx (New)
25 – trustno1 (New)
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Tips For Password Security
- Keep your passwords private – never share a password with anyone else.
- Do not write down your passwords.
- Use passwords of at least eight (8) characters or more (longer is better).
- Use a combination of uppercase letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters (for example: !, @, &, %, +) in all passwords.
- Avoid using people’s or pet’s names, or words found in the dictionary; it’s also best to avoid using key dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc.).
- Substituting look-alike characters for letters or numbers is no longer sufficient (for example, Password” and “P@ssw0rd”).
- A strong password should look like a series of random characters.
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