What are the most commonly used terrible passwords of 2015? Password management company SplashData revealed what passwords people were – but shouldn’t have been – using in 2015, from a pool of 2 million leaked passwords.
It’s an annual list, and the majority of the passwords featured on the 2015 edition have made plenty of appearances in the past. Needless to say, the old favourites make a return. Yes, that means password and 123456.
1qaz2wsx also makes an appearance for the first time, and if that looks a little too random to be a bad password, then take a look at your computer keyboard. It’s the first two columns of the keyboard. Meaning it’s really just as bad as qwerty (which also makes an appearance, again.)
Also a new member is starwars. No guessing why that has made a first appearance for 2015.
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It goes to show that despite a number of high-profile hacking cases occurring in 2015 (like the Ashley Madison hacking scandal) we are still too cavalier with our online security, most likely clinging to the wholly flawed adage of “it’ll never happen to me.”
Well, if you keep using any of these below passwords, you may not be able to say that for much longer.
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
For more information on good password tips, click here for TechExplained.net’s list of password tips.
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