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22 Jan 2015

The most popular passwords of 2014

A list of the most popular passwords of 2014 reveals that internet security continues to be far less important to most people than simple memorability - much to the frustration of security experts worldwide.

SplashData compiles a list annually by collecting stolen data published by hackers throughout the year and analysing the passwords. It excludes data from non-English speaking countries.

During 2014, as in the year before, the most popular password was “123456”. In second place for the second year was “password”. Experts recommend using a password of eight characters or more, made up of lower- and upper-case letters, numbers and special characters. It is also important not to use the same password for each log-in, so that if hackers compromise one service they are not able to log into your accounts across the internet.

The 25 most popular passwords:

1. 123456 2. password 3. 12345 4. 12345678 5. qwerty
6. 123456789 7. 1234 8. baseball 9. dragon 10. football
11. 1234567 12. monkey 13. letmein 14. abc123 15. 111111
16. mustang 17. access 18. shadow 19. master 20. michael
21. superman 22. 696969 23. 123123 24. batman 25. trustno1
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Source:
The Telegraph
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Axarhöfði 14,
110 Reykjavik, Iceland

Iceland - 2015