There are quite a few bad ones, as well as some head-scratchers.
Just about everyone knows at this point that it’s important to use a strong password. But that hasn’t stopped a lot of people from using the dumbest passwords imaginable. NordPass just published its annual lists of the most popular easy-to-crack passwords, and there are quite a few bad ones, as well as some head-scratchers.
The people behind NordPass, a password manager, have been compiling these lists for six years now, analyzed from sets of passwords stolen by malware and exposed in data leaks. The latest batch of lists include not just personal credentials like in previous years, but also corporate passwords., and it’s interesting to see how the most common bad passwords vary by country. For instance, the most common bad password in Canada is “qwerty123,” while in the U.S. it’s “secret.
Below, we’ve got the top 20 most common passwords overall across 44 countries, along with the top 20 lists for a few other countries like the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. You can find all the lists at NordPass.Do you see any of your favorite passwords on the list? It seems appropriate that “hockey” would make the list in Canada, but we’re a bit perplexed about what the significance behind “9-11-1961” might be.
The passwords broken out for being just from corporate sources also reveal a couple of odd choices. In the U.S. the password “aaron431” is ranked as the fifth most popular. But we have to admit we’re not sure why that could be. We can speculate there might be some corporate passwords that have been leaked from one big company that’s skewing the data in a way.
Just as Google kills off its Google One VPN service, it will now help all account holders discover if their SSN or password is leaked online.11/13/2024, 2:50 pm
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