10 most popular passwords stolen from Yahoo

In the blog of the company ESET published statistics collected on the basis of data analysis 450 thousand accounts recently stolen from the site Yahoo.com. Users continue to delight with creativity and a responsible attitude to inventing complex passwords. The undisputed leader is "123456". This secret combination was used by 1666 users (0.38%). In second place is the password “password”, it occurs 788 times (0.18%). The third place is occupied by “welcome” with 436 carefree users (0.1%).

Here is a full ten:

123456	1666	0.38%
password	780	0.18%
welcome	436	0.1%
ninja	333	0.08%
abc123	250	0.06%
123456789	222	0.05%
12345678	208	0.05%
sunshine	205	0.05%
princess	202	0.05%
qwerty	172	0.04%

For comparison, here are the top thirty most popular passwords for LinkedIn hacking:


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And here is a list of the 25 most popular passwords of 2011 according to SplashData:

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. I love you
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football