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Is your password any of these? If so, change it immediately!

Daniel Caceres

Daniel Caceres

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Password management SplashData has finally released its fifth annual list of the most common passwords from the past year.

SplashData analyse around two million passwords from around the world, and release the most popular ones in a bid to warn the public of the dangers.

Is your password any of these? If so, change it immediately!

In the top 25 of 2015, you’ll find the usual ones topping the list (12345 and qwerty, etc) however last year some the introduction of a few Star Wars references such as “starwars”, and “princess” and “solo”, simly down to the release of the movie in December.

I hope for your sake you don’t have any of the following passwords, and if so, please change them with immediate effect!

Top 25 most common passwords:

  1. 123456
  2. password
  3. 12345678
  4. qwerty
  5. 12345
  6. 123456789
  7. football
  8. 1234
  9. 1234567
  10. baseball
  11. welcome
  12. 1234567890
  13. abc123
  14. 111111
  15. 1qaz2wsx
  16. dragon
  17. master
  18. monkey
  19. letmein
  20. login
  21. princess
  22. qwertyuiop
  23. solo
  24. password
  25. starwars

Source: The Inquirer

Daniel Caceres

Daniel Caceres

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