25 Worst Password In 2015

Password becomes very vital in today's digital world. And once again, '123456' and 'password' be the worst passwords 2015.

This was revealed by the statistics of SplashData, a company that makes software for managing passwords, as quoted by PC Mag, Wednesday.

The company found that the worst password that is also the most widely used password, and hence easily cracked by hackers (hackers) evil.

Every January, SplashData released a list of the worst passwords findings, based on analysis of more than 2 million passwords leak has been found. Since the company began collecting data in 2011, '123456' and 'password' are consistently at the top list of findings.

While the standard including password 'qwerty' still remains on the list of SplashData, some passwords that are inspired by Star Wars: Episode VII also appear. Number 25 on the list of worst passwords is really the word 'starwars', but the company also found the word 'solo' and 'princess'.

Malicious hackers use a variety of tools, including boots to break the password. But not infrequently they also tried a simple code, such as '123456'.

To that end, the company encourages users to apply the special character alphanumeric password. Users can also use a password manager, which generates random passwords for different accounts.

More details, here is a list of the worst passwords 2015.

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

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