When it comes to passwords the best ones you can have are naturally going to be the hardest to remember. Plus, cybersecurity experts suggest you really need to be using original passwords for each new login you create in your Internet surfing, which means a lot of passwords.
Below you’ll find a survey of America’s most used passwords compiled by the password management company, NordPass. The new analysis utilizes 4TB of hacked user data from 50 countries in collaboration with various security experts. You can see the most used passwords globally, as well as break them down by nation, and even gender. So, without further ado, here are the Top Ten most easily hackable passwords Americans are using these days:
123456
password
12345
123456789
password1
abc123
12345678
qwerty
111111
1234567
According to NordPass, each of the top ten most used passwords can be hacked in less than a second. Other choices that made the list include “football,” “dragon,” “whatever,” and, we kid you not, “[sic]you1.” So really, what NordPass is trying to tell everyone is: Do better.
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