Year in Review: The Top 25 Worst passwords of 2014
- Staff
- January 22, 2015
- Industry News, Technology Tips
- 2014, account security, passwords, worst passwords
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It’s a new year, and that means we are another year older and hopefully another year wiser. So why are so many people still using the same old basic passwords across all of their online accounts? If you think your “1234″ password is still protecting your sensitive information, think again.
Before you finalize your decision on creating that perfect password, remember that “easy” doesn’t always mean “better”. Check to make sure yours is not on the list (below) of the 25 most popular, and most easily hacked, passwords of 2014:
- 123456
- password
- 12345
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 123456789
- 1234
- baseball
- dragon
- football
- 1234567
- monkey
- letmein
- abc123
- 111111
- mustang
- access
- shadow
- master
- michael
- superman
- 696969
- 123123
- batman
- trustno1
