We’re being overwhelmed with passwords, passwords from e-mail accounts and Facebook passwords to mobile banking and video streaming services. Today’s average internet user must have seemingly limitless passwords, and too many users tend to rely on password manageability With incredibly easy to remember passwords, these passwords are easy to guess.
As 2018 is approaching, security firm SplashData named the top ten worst passwords in 2017, including some of the most commonly used and most unsafe passwords. Not surprisingly, this list is populated with a number of common passwords, including the two annual classic passwords “123456” and “password.”
The security company SplashData gives the list above after counting more than 5 million passwords in various leaks over the past 12 months. Although many passwords are familiar, there are some new, unsafe passwords worth noticing, including “starwars” and “whatever.” SplashData said “starwars” is a dangerous password, and hackers are using common terms of popular culture and sports because they know many are using words that are easy to remember for online “breaking in.”
- 123456
- password
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 12345
- 123456789
- letmein
- 1234567
- football
- iloveyou
Reference: nypost
