It’s 2015 and People Are Still Using This As Their Password
No wonder so many people get hacked these days...
Lack of creativity? Ignorance? Stupidity? Could these be the reasons why in the year of 2015 the most popular password is STILL 123456!? SplashData says 'password' came in second on its latest list of the most common passwords. I still want to know how they make this list...
The top-10 Most Frequently Used Passwords:
- 123456
- password
- 12345
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 1234567890
- 1234
- baseball
- dragon
- football
Other popular passwords include: monkey, letmein, mustang, access, shadow, master, superman, batman, trustno1.
Seriously world, don't use a password made up of numbers, favorite sports team, your offspring's name or the year you were born. Those are the first things a hacker will try!
Upon the publishing of this list, we found out how North Korea hacked Sony...