Tuesday, 19 January 2016

List Of 25 Most Used Passwords in Year 2015

SplashData firm has come out with its 2015 edition of annual Worst Passwords "123456" has topped the list of the 25 worst passwords used this year.The second distinction goes to "password", which has also been holding the position for three successive years.

According to SplashData's list, the third most top password is "12345678" which gained one spot from last year. 
The fourth and fifth top passwords were "qwerty" and "12345" respectively.
The "123456789" password regained sixth position, same as in 2014.
Some of the other passwords that made it to the worst list from SplashData included "football", "baseball", "welcome", "dragon", "master", "monkey", and "passw0rd." The "starwars" also made it to the list of top 25 worst passwords of 2015, according to the data from SplashData.

The complete list of top 25 passwords 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
24- starwars

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