Surprisingly, many people still choose passwords that are easy enough for children to guess.
Billions of people worldwide use the internet, requiring them to choose passwords for email, social media, and other services.
Yes, indeed cyber security experts have released a list of the most popular or worst passwords of 2024 which were stunning.
This list has been released by a company called NordPass.
For this, a list of leaked passwords contained in 2.5 TB of data publicly available by the company was analyzed.
According to this list, 123456 is the most popular password.
If this is your favorite password too, know that every year it has been taking the ‘honor’ of the most popular/worst password in some company’s list.
This is the 5th time in the last 6 years that this password has topped the company’s list.
Similarly, 123456789 stood second while 12345678 stood third.
Password was at the fourth position while qwerty123 was placed at the 5th position.
Qwerty1 and 111111 ranked 6th and 7th respectively.
12345 came 8th in the segment while secret and 123123 stood 9th and 10th respectively.
1234567890 was ranked 11th followed by 1234567 and 000000 at 12th and 13th respectively.
Qwerty and abc123 ranked 14th to 15th worst passwords respectively.
password1, iloveyou, 11111111, dragon and monkey ranked 16th to 20th respectively.
The company stated that 18 of the top 20 passwords take only a second to crack.
Remember that each online account should have a different password and try to make it as difficult as possible.
Technology companies are actively developing password alternatives, but these technologies will require time to be available.
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