Like every year, this year too, the list of the most popular passwords that users use on their various profiles and accounts in order to protect them was announced.
The list was created by SplashData, a company that provides password management utilities like TeamsID and Gpass. The company said it compiled the list by analyzing more than five million user files that were leaked online in 2017 and contained passwords. For the second year in a row, “123456” remained the top password among the millions of others exposed online. The Top 100 worst passwords include those related to sports (Football, baseball, soccer, hockey, Lakers, jordan23, golfer, Rangers, Yankees), car and motorcycle brands (Mercedes, Corvette, Ferrari, Harley), and some expressions (iloveyou, letmein, whatever, blahblah).
Their honor was also given to several names that were also in the Top 100 (Robert (#31), Matthew (#32), Jordan (#33), Daniel (#35), Andrew (#36), Andrea (#38), Joshua (#40), George (#48), Nicole (#53), Hunter (#54), Chelsea (#62), Phoenix (#66), Amanda (#67), Ashley (#69), Jessica (#74), Jennifer (#76), Michelle (#81), William (#86), Maggie (#92), Charlie (#95) and Martin (#96).
What's more worrying, according to SplashData, is that most of these users, in order to make their passwords more complex and therefore more difficult to crack, add some kind of symbol or number before or after the key word, e.g. 1password1 or @password@. This tactic has motivated some hackers who have developed an algorithm that tries various combinations of all known passwords in combination with symbols and numbers in order to find the right passwords.
Below you can see the Top 25 codes that, of course, you should NOT use.
