'Password' Most Commonly Hacked Password
- First Posted: Nov 22 2011 09:50 AM
- Updated: 21 minutes ago
And no, your clever 'passw0rd' isn't much better.
The most commonly hacked online password of the year is, to no one's surprise, "password," according to a survey that examined the passwords associated with compromised data. SplashData, a password management company, found that common names for younger people, such as Michael or Ashley, as well as simple strings of numbers, such as 123456, were among the 25 most common passwords of the last year. If any of your passwords are on this list, then we recommend you either a), change your passwords, lest your OkCupid profile goes viral, or b), just stop using the Internet altogether.
The top 25 are:
password
123456
12345678
qwerty
abc123
monkey
1234567
letmein
trustno1
dragon
baseball
111111
iloveyou
master
sunshine
ashley
bailey
passw0rd
shadow
123123
654321
superman
qazwsx
michael
football















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