‘Password’ tops list of most common passwords

Want to guess someone's password? Try ‘password’, researchers have claimed.

    According to an annual study of the most commonly used passwords researchers have found that ‘password’, ‘123456’, ‘qwerty’ and ‘12345678’ are still the most widely used - despite years of security experts urging people to change them to secure options, reported the Daily Mail. The latest list comes following 12 months of high profile hacks that have revealed user passwords. The bad old choice is the culprit that Yahoo, LinkedIn, eHarmony, and Last.fm have suffered major breaches.

     Just in time for Halloween comes something that might scare anyone who spends a lot of time online - SplashData's annual list of the most common passwords used on the Internet and posted by hackers. Researchers said, “Users of any of these passwords are the most likely to be victims in future breaches.”

    However, some people have updated their passwords, and the research found new entries to this year's list include different, but not really creative alternatives like ‘welcome’, ‘jesus’, ‘mustang’ and ‘password1’. SplashData’s top 25 list was compiled from files containing millions of stolen passwords posted online by hackers.

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