SplashData, the professional password managers, has released a list of the 25 most used and therefore most hackable passwords. We're all guilty of choosing something simple or easy to remember when we first sign up for that email or social media account, but the pros strongly advise opting for a strong password rather than one that's easily recalled.
While some of these are lengthy, it's the proximity of each key stroke that makes them easy to guess. Have a read down through them and see if yours makes the list. If it does, we recommend you change it fairly lively!
- 123456
- password
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 12345
- 123456789
- football
- 1234
- 1234567
- baseball
- welcome
- 1234567890
- abc123
- 111111
- 1qaz2wsx
- dragon
- master
- monkey
- letmein
- login
- princess
- qwertyuiop
- solo
- passw0rd
- starwars