Since anything and everything these days requires an account, membership and passwords it’s easy to take shortcuts to lighten the load on your brain. Don’t get lazy because if your passwords are anything like these 25, you will be hacked.
The following list from SplashData comes from data sourced in millions of password leaks online:
|
Rank
|
Password
|
Change from 2012
|
|
1
|
123456
|
Up 1
|
|
2
|
password
|
Down 1
|
|
3
|
12345678
|
Unchanged
|
|
4
|
qwerty
|
Up 1
|
|
5
|
abc123
|
Down 1
|
|
6
|
123456789
|
New
|
|
7
|
111111
|
Up 2
|
|
8
|
1234567
|
Up 5
|
|
9
|
iloveyou
|
Up 2
|
|
10
|
adobe123
|
New
|
|
11
|
123123
|
Up 5
|
|
12
|
sunshine
|
Up 2
|
|
13
|
1234567890
|
New
|
|
14
|
letmein
|
Down 7
|
|
15
|
photoshop
|
New
|
|
16
|
1234
|
New
|
|
17
|
monkey
|
Down 11
|
|
18
|
shadow
|
Unchanged
|
|
19
|
sunshine
|
Down 5
|
|
20
|
12345
|
New
|
|
21
|
password1
|
Up 4
|
|
22
|
princess
|
New
|
|
23
|
azerty
|
New
|
|
24
|
trustno1
|
Down 12
|
|
25
|
000000
|
New
|
Source: SplashData
