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| The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2014 Give A Depressing Insight Into Online Security |
YOU don't have to be a mastermind hacker to crack any of these award-winning duffers.
With people now spending a reported 27 hours online each week – you'd think they would have figured out a rough idea of what makes a good password.
But you would be wrong.
It appears that that's not the case at all (unless you count the fact that "12345678" has dropped from the third to the fourth most popular password in the last year).
SplashData, a popular cross-platform password manager, has compiled a countdown of the 25 most popular passwords of the past year.
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| Strong passwords are essential for any online account, no matter how trivial |
SplashData also shows the popular password's position relative to its ranking last year.
The data from this year shows the popularity of superheroes, and seems to show that counting to six is much more popular than counting to eight, at least in terms of passwords.
It also hints that a staggering amount of people were probably halfway through an episode of Game of Thrones when they were asked to set-up a new password (unless you can think of another reason "Dragon" is such a popular password?).
Here's the complete list.
The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2014 –
1. 123456 (Non-mover)
2. password (Non-mover)
3. 12345 (Up 17 spots)
4. 12345678 (Down one)
5. qwerty (Down one)
6. 123456789 (Non-mover)
7. 1234 (Up nine spots)
8. baseball (New Entry)
9. dragon (New Entry)
10. football (New Entry)
11. 1234567 (Down four spots)
12. monkey (Up five spots)
13. letmein (Up one)
14. abc123 (Down nine spots)
15. 111111 (Down eight spots)
16. mustang (New Entry)
17. access (New Entry)
18. shadow (Non-mover)
19. master (New Entry)
20. michael (New Entry)
21. superman (New Entry)
22. 696969 (New Entry)
23. 123123 (Down 12 spots)
24. batman (New Entry)
25. trustno1 (Down one)
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