SplashData , a maker of password management software, has published the latest edition of its annual
list of the worst passwords of the year. To do this, she had to analyze about 5 million passwords of users from North America and Western Europe.
![The most insecure passwords of 2017: 123456 and qwerty, as always, in the lead - 1]()
Despite the popularity of news about data leaks and hacks of popular services, it turned out that users still use “super-secure” passwords, like
123456 and
Password . These two topped the rating. What conclusion can be drawn from this? Very sad: not everyone learns from mistakes. The most popular (and weakest) passwords sometimes reflect changing interests of users: for example, this year the
starwars password made it into the ranking (just in time for the release of the new film in the series!).
The rating shows that users often use passwords that match their interests. Moreover, such interests can be easily calculated from pages on social networks. So SplashData is urging
Star Wars and
Game of Thrones fans to change their passwords to stronger ones.
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The company advises using the simplest guidelines for creating secure passwords: the key must use at least 12 characters with a combination of letters and upper and lower case symbols. It is clear that doing this is lazy, but it will still be better if you have different passwords for different websites.
And here are the winners of the rating of the worst passwords of 2017:
- 123456
- Password
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 12345
- 123456789
- letmein
- 1234567
- football
- I love you
- admin
- welcome
- monkey
- login
- abc123
- starwars
- 123123
- dragon
- passw0rd
- maste
- hello
- freedom
- whatever
- qazwsx
- trustno1
Despite the popularity of news about data leaks and hacks of popular services, it turned out that users still use “super-secure” passwords, like 123456 and Password . These two topped the rating. What conclusion can be drawn from this? Very sad: not everyone learns from mistakes. The most popular (and weakest) passwords sometimes reflect changing interests of users: for example, this year the starwars password made it into the ranking (just in time for the release of the new film in the series!).
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