Hit parade of the most popular bad passwords of 2015

The company SplashData , dealing with solutions and services in the field of computer security, presented the hit parade of the most popular of bad passwords for the past year. And although there are debutants in the list, which are distinguished by a slightly longer length, this property of theirs did not make them safer.



The list was created on the basis of various user bases leaked over the year to the Internet - in the amount of more than 2 million entries.

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In the first places traditionally stand favorite "123456", "12345678" and "password". Then the winners were distributed as follows (next to the passwords, their dynamics compared with the previous year are indicated; debutants are marked with an asterisk):

1. 123456 (=)
2. password (=)
3. 12345678 (+1)
4. qwerty (+1)
5. 12345 (-2)
6. 123456789 (=)
7. football (+3)
8. 1234 (-1)
9. 1234567 (+2)
10. baseball (-2)
11. welcome (*)
12. 1234567890 (*)
13. abc123 (+1)
14. 111111 (+1)
15. 1qaz2wsx (*)
16. dragon (-7)
17. master (+2)
18. monkey (-6)
19. letmein (-6)
20. login (*)
21. princess (*)
22. qwertyuiop (*)
23. solo (*)
24. passw0rd (*)
25. starwars (*; and here the Force is awakened)

Among the passwords there is a sporting trend, the ears of Star Wars fans stick up, and banal laziness manifests itself in the form of sequences of numbers and letters going on the keyboard in a row.



The company recommends using passwords no shorter than 12 characters, and the characters must be random and mixed (uppercase, lowercase, numbers). Also the standard recommendation is not to use the same passwords in different places. It is better to use special managers for storing passwords - although the same popular LastPass service last year was hacked .