Every year Splashdata brings together a list of millions of passwords that have been discovered and became public throughout the year, so it groups and classifies all passwords in order to discover the most popular and most used passwords on the internet. In 2015, more than 2 million passwords were classified that leaked on the network. Again the '123456' and 'Password' passwords were among the most used on the world worldwide, see the list of the 25 most used passwords in 2015:
- 1. 123456 (unchanged)
- 2. Password (unchanged)
- 3. 12345678 (+ 1)
- 4. QWERTY (+ 1)
- 5. 12345 (- 2)
- 6. 123456789 (Unchanged)
- 7. Football (+ 3)
- 8. 1234 (- 1)
- 9. 1234567 (+ 2)
- 10. Baseball (- 2)
- 11. Welcome (not on the previous list)
- 12. 1234567890 (not on the previous list)
- 13. ABC123 (+ 1)
- 14. 111111 (+ 1)
- 15. 1QAZ2WSX (not on the previous list)
- 16. Dragon (- 7)
- 17. Master (+ 2)
- 18. Monkey (- 6)
- 19. Letmein (- 6)
- 20. Login (not on the previous list)
- 21. Princess (not on the previous list)
- 22. Qwertyuiop (not on the previous list)
- 23. Solo (not on the previous list)
- 24. Passw0rd (not on the previous list)
- 25. Starwars (was not on the previous list)
See the list of the most used passwords in 2014 and 2013 .
Given that the password is the first and main feature to prove the authenticity of a user on different systems on the network, we can see that netizens still use passwords without responsibility and concern, given the so many security problems that the internet offers. Following simple rules it is possible to increase password safety and ensure that they cannot be easily broken and discovered by hackers that may misuse this information.
See this article with tips on how to create strong passwords and prevent them from being discovered .
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