Statistics: 25 worst electronic passwords of 2015

It is 2016 already in the yard, which means that we all became one year older and wiser. However, the statistics of the analytical company SplashData for several years already refuted this opinion. At least in the issue of security on the web. Most of us still do not care that someone can easily and naturally invade our privacy and put our private information on the Internet.

Recall that experts SplashData annually analyze millions of stolen passwords on the web over the past 12 months and make a list of the 25 most popular ones. This year, the list is compiled on the basis of 2 million stolen and leaked passwords, which, as you might guess, were invented by users more like a backhand one than seriously. All these people still do not understand that the creation of a complex password (and not the “123456” and “password” options, which, incidentally, occupy the first places in this list), is one of the main components of high-quality security information stored on their computers or on the Web. .

The list of the 25 worst passwords of 2015 is as follows:

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 we discard the whole comic situation, which is that people still do not want to use any complex passwords, then you can even trace some trends in this list. Passwords for sports topics such as football and baseball, as in previous years, remain very popular. New ones have been added to the list. Apparently, inspired by certain blockbusters, people started using the “starwars” and “solo” passwords. I also returned the password “princess” (most likely for the same reason), which was absent from the list last year.

But passwords such as “welcome”, “login” and “passw0rd” cannot be called anything else as direct proof of the folly of people using them.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/research-development/statistika-25-xudshix-elektronnyx-parolej-2015-goda.html.