26 Jun The 20 Most Popular Passwords of 2015
So it’s 2016 we’re well into the digital information age. So you’d think that we’d be pretty sorted now with our passwords, right?
Well no. Despite many publicised accounts of hacking, we still on the whole don’t seem to have gotten the message on how to keep our sensitive data secure and in many cases it’s just ripe for the picking by even a half decent hacker…
Internet banking – with all your funds and account info, cloud services – with all your documents and maybe sensitive images, other apps – with your personal preferences and information all out there. So what was popular in 2015?
- 123456
- password
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 12345
- 123456789
- football
- 1234
- 1234567
- baseball
- welcome
- 1234567890
- abc123
- 111111
- 1qaz2wsx
- dragon
- master
- monkey
- letmein
- login
We hope that none of your account passwords appear on this list. If it does then it’s only a matter of time…
So what’s the best way to create a password that is secure and as difficult as possible to crack?
We’ll explore that next week in our blog.