Is Your Password on This List of Worst Ones?
Sure, sometimes we get lazy about changing our passwords. But if you're sticking with superobvious ones, you're just asking to be hacked. Since 2011, a company called SplashData has compiled a list of the most common passwords, and the ones from 2014 are no less cringeworthy than the ones from years before. (The top two were unchanged from 2013.)
Ahead, check out the 25 most used passwords from more than three million that were leaked online last year. If you recognize any of these, change your passwords ASAP. And if you need help picking one that's easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess, follow these tips.
- 123456
- password
- 12345
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 1234567890
- 1234
- baseball
- dragon
- football
- 1234567
- monkey
- letmein
- abc123
- 111111
- mustang
- access
- shadow
- master
- michael
- superman
- 696969
- 123123
- batman
- trustno1