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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Splash Data's 2015 list of the most common (a/k/a "worst") Passwords

By Jack Brummet, Security Ed.

Splash Data has just released their new list of the most common (a/k/a "worst") passwords:

123456 (unchanged from 2014)
password (unchanged)
12345678 (Up 1)
qwerty (Up 1)
12345 (Down 2)
123456789 (Unchanged)
football (Up 3)
1234 (Down 1)
1234567 (Up 2)
baseball (Down 2)
welcome (New)
1234567890 (New)
abc123 (Up 1)
11111 (Up 1)
1qaz2wsx (New)
dragon (Down 7)
master (Up 2)
monkey (Down 6)
letmein (Down 6)
login (New)
princess (New)
qwertyuiop (New)
solo (New)
passw0rd (New)
starwars (New)

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