A common password is a hackable one
Cybersecurity firm NordPass recently examined data culled from online security incidents in 30 countries to determine how often certain easy-to-guess passwords are used.
The top 50 found in the United States are below, all of which violate the cardinal rules of strong password
protection like making them long, nonsensical, and alphanumeric.
If any of these look familiar, change yours (which you should do often anyway): guest, 123456, password, 12345, a1b2c3, 123456789, Password1, 1234, abc123, 12345678, qwerty, baseball, football, unknown, soccer, jordan23, iloveyou, monkey, shadow, g_czechout, 1234567, 1q2w3e4r, 111111, fckyou, princess, basketball, sunshine, jordan, michael, 1234567890, reset, zinch, maiden, 123123, 81729373759, superman, hunter, anthony, maggie, super123, purple, love, ashley, andrew, justin, killer, pepper, tigger, buster, nicole.
Across all countries, password was the most common, with nearly 5 million accounts making the bare minimum effort.
