The worst passwords of 2018
SplashData has published the annual list of the worst passwords throughout 2018 and for the fifth consecutive year in the first places, we find the most trivial passwords: ” 123456 ” and ” password “.
SplashData has released its annual list of the worst passwords of the year from over five million passwords leaked on the Internet this year.
Even 2018 was a year characterized by the loss of a lot of private information even at an important level; this is also caused by the high use of simple passwords that are used in personal and non-personal accounts.
For the fifth consecutive year, ” 123456 ” and ” password ” are the first two most popular passwords online. The new entries on the list include ” 111111 “, ” sunshine “, ” princess “, ” 666666 “, ” 654321 ” and ” donald ” at number 23. Further on the list, popular passwords include names of people like ” daniel “, ” hannah ” and ” thomas “; references to pop culture as ” solo “, ” tigger ” and ” lakers “; random items such as ” cookies ” and ” bananas “; years of birth as ” 1990 ” and ” 1991 ” ; and simple sentences like ” whatever ” and ” test “.
Here is the list of the 10 most popular passwords of 2018 :
- 123456
- password
- 123456789
- 12345678
- 12345
- 111111
- 1234567
- sunshine
- qwerty
- iloveyou
SplashData CEO, Morgan Slain, spoke about the list: ” Hackers are very successful using celebrity names, pop culture and sports terms and simple keyboard layouts for online accounts because they know that many people use these easy-to-remember combinations.
” As you later explain, using simple phrases like these for any online account is a bad idea because they are easy to guess: ” Our hope by publishing this list every year is to get people to take action to protect themselves online.”
SplashData estimated that almost 10% of people used at least one of the 25 worst passwords on the list this year; most of the five million passwords that were leaked and evaluated for the report came from users in North America and Western Europe.
To safeguard your personal data, SplashData suggests passwords that are at least twelve characters long and include mixed characters, each login must have a different password, and it is suggested to invest in a password management app to store everything, generate new random passwords and automatically log in to Web sites. Apple to safeguard users has introduced in iOS 12 a new feature of automatic password filling.
