It shouldn’t be news that insensitivity to our cyber security could cost us a lot ranging from giving our personal details into the wrong hands or having our money stolen by people who shouldn’t have possession of it, but most people out here on the web simply don’t care about how secured they are on the internet.
It’s obvious that passwords are the basic necessities to keeping internet users secured but studies by SplashData over leaked passwords in 2015 show that people still use words like “passw0rd” and numbers like “12345” to secure their accounts. Below is the list of top 25 password used after study of over 2 million leaked passwords in 2015.
1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. 12345
6. 123456789
7. football
8. 1234
9. 1234567
10. baseball
11. welcome
12. 1234567890
13. abc123
14. 111111
15. 1qaz2wsx
16. dragon
17. master
18. monkey
19. letmein
20. login
21. princess
22. qwertyuiop
23. solo
24. passw0rd
25. starwars
If you find yourself using any of these passwords, you obviously should replace them. Do you find it difficult creating a secured password? Here is a guide to the best password practices to protect yourself on the web.
