Passwords or Please, don’t be st*p*d!
Each year splashdata releases a list of the “top” twenty-five “Worst Passwords.”
This is the list for:
2013
1 | 123456 | Up 1 |
2 | password | Down 1 |
3 | 12345678 | Unchanged |
4 | qwerty | Up 1 |
5 | abc123 | Down 1 |
6 | 123456789 | New |
7 | 111111 | Up 2 |
8 | 1234567 | Up 5 |
9 | iloveyou | Up 2 |
10 | adobe123 | New |
11 | 123123 | Up 5 |
12 | admin | New |
13 | 1234567890 | New |
14 | letmein | Down 7 |
15 | photoshop | New |
16 | 1234 | New |
17 | monkey | Down 11 |
18 | shadow | Unchanged |
19 | sunshine | Down 5 |
20 | 12345 | New |
21 | password1 | Up 4 |
22 | princess | New |
23 | azerty | New |
24 | trustno1 | Down 12 |
25 | 000000 | New |
2014
- 123456 (unchanged from 2013)
- password (unchanged)
- 12345 (up 17 spots)
- 12345678 (down one)
- qwerty (down one)
- 1234567890 (unchanged)
- 1234 (up nine)
- baseball (New)
- dragon (New)
- football (New)
- 1234567 (down four)
- monkey (up five)
- letmein (up one)
- abc123 (down nine)
- 111111 (down eight)
- mustang (New)
- access (New)
- shadow (unchanged)
- master (New)
- michael (New)
- superman (New)
- 696969 (New)
- 123123 (down 12)
- batman (New)
- trustno1 (down one)
If you’d like some help on coming up with better passwords, please, see my post entitled: Sunday Passwords.