Is Your Password on the List of the 25 Worst Passwords of 2016?
Your BBB® has examined the data breach statistics from 2016. Would it surprise you to learn that in 2016 there were 3000 publically reported data breaches that exposed more than 22 billion records? Can you guess the cause of 63% of the data breaches? Weak, Default, or Stolen Passwords!
KeeperSecurity, a password management company, analyzed over 10M passwords available on the public web in 2016 and came up with a list of the 25 most common, or in other words—the worst passwords, and here are the Top Ten:
RANK PASSWORD
1 123456
2 123456789
3 qwerty
4 12345678
5 111111
6 1234567890
7 1234567
8 password
9 123123
10 987654321
Click here to see passwords 11 – 25.
Whether your password is on the list or not, click here to get tips to improve your passwords.