Weak passwords



Specialists Company Splash Data produced top 20 most popular passwords used by users on the network. The basis of their study, the experts took account of compromised accounts. For a long time leader of the ranking was the word «password» («password»), but now in the first place is a combination of numbers 123456. Following are «qwerty», «abc123" and «iloveyou» («yalyublyutebya").

Top 20 most common passwords on the version of Splash Data is listed below: 1. 123456 (moved up one position)
2. password (one position down)
3. 12345678 (unchanged)
4. qwerty (one position up)
5. abc123 (one position down)
6 123 456 789 (new)
7. 111111 (two places up)
8. 1234567 (five places up)
9. iloveyou (two places up)
10. adobe123 (new)
11. 123123 (five places up)
12. sunshine (two places up)
13. 1234567890 (new)
14. letmein (seven positions down)
15. photoshop (new)
16. 1234 (new)
17. monkey (eleven point down)
18. shadow (unchanged)
19. 12345 (new)
20. password1 (up four points)

Source: mirfactov.com/