Worst Passwords 2011

The company SplashData, which produces applications for managing their passwords, decided to show the worst, in the opinion of its developers, the passwords of 2011. These passwords were used by Internet users, and SplashData ranked the bad guys in a descending order, from the worst to the worst. In general, nothing unexpected, but quite interesting.

And yes, all these passwords were created by residents of Western countries; in the CIS, such studies were not conducted this year. Yes, and the discrepancies are not so big, only the names will change. Looking ahead, it is worth saying that the worst, and at the same time one of the most common passwords is “password”. Its counterpart, “passw0rd”, is ranked 18th on the list.
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Well, then what each system administrator used to see in the password list of users of his company (if, of course, users are responsible for managing passwords / logins, but not sysadmins). Here and "123456", and "qwerty" and other beauties. Of course, some of the passwords are simple only because the user logged in to a resource just to download something. It is clear that in this case, no one will invent complicated passwords.

But many people put passwords like “123456” for mail services, as well as for corporate accounts. Actually, here are the heroes of 2011:

1. password
2. 123456
3.12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football

Naturally, such passwords can be easily cracked; it will take less than a minute to do everything about everything. The only thing that caused the difficulty to the company that conducted the research is the explanation of the popularity of passwords like "shadow" and "monkey". Company representatives said it was a mystery to them.

Via mashable