Top Ten Passwords 2016
Password management firm SplashData has compiled more than 2m passwords leaked over the course of 2015, to find the 25 worst passwords – those used by the most people at the same time. Topping the list for yet another year is the gold standard of awful passwords, 123456, while hot on its heels is perhaps the only password worse still: password.
On Friday, password management company Keeper Security released a list of the most common passwords of 2016 ― and it’s, well, shameful. The most popular password, making up nearly 17 percent of the 10 million passwords the company analyzed, was “123456.” “Password” was also among the top 10 passwords, coming in as the eighth most common.
23 March 2016 • 1:35pm I f your password is "123456", "qwerty" or even "password", it would be a good idea to change it right now. The three terms are among the most commonly-used passwords of 2015, according to an annual ranking from a security group.
On Friday, password management company Keeper Security released a list of the most common passwords of 2016 ― and it’s, well, shameful. The most popular password, making up nearly 17 percent of the 10 million passwords the company analyzed, was “123456.” “Password” was also among the top 10 passwords, coming in as the eighth most common.
On Friday, password management company Keeper Security released a list of the most common passwords of 2016 ― and it’s, well, shameful. The most popular password, making up nearly 17 percent of the 10 million passwords the company analyzed, was “123456.” “Password” was also among the top 10 passwords, coming in as the eighth most common.
On Friday, password management company Keeper Security released a list of the most common passwords of 2016 ― and it’s, well, shameful. The most popular password, making up nearly 17 percent of the 10 million passwords the company analyzed, was “123456.” “Password” was also among the top 10 passwords, coming in as the eighth most common.
On Friday, password management company Keeper Security released a list of the most common passwords of 2016 ― and it’s, well, shameful.