Friday, November 2, 2012

2012's Worst Passwords - According To Hackers


2012 could easily be coined as the Year of the Data Breach. Big corporations such as Yahoo!, Bank of America, LinkedIn, Visa just to name a few all fell victim to hacker attacks,most of them BIG, putting customer data at risk and at the same time  reminding all of us that identity theft is one of the fastest growing global crimes.

With all these developments, one would think that we may have at least learned how to choose secure passwords by now. No Sir! The password ''password'' and ''123456'' are the winners at for the second year in a row! Passwords like ''Ninja'' and ''Monkey'' also made it to the list.

What's really very disturbing is that this list was compiled from files containing millions of pinched passwords the hackers had the audacity to post it themselves,online.


#                Password                Change from 2011  
1                password                 Unchanged
2                123456                    Unchanged
3                12345678                 Unchanged
4                abc123                     Up 1
5                qwerty                      Down 1
6                monkey                    Unchanged
7                letmein                     Up 1
8                dragon                      Up 2
9                111111                     Up 3
10              baseball                    Up 1
11              iloveyou                     Up 2
12              trustno1                    Down 3
13              1234567                   Down 6
14              sunshine                  Up 1
15              master                     Down 1
16              123123                     Up 4
17              welcome                   New
18              shadow                    Up 1
19              ashley                      Down 3
20              football                     Up 5
21              jesus                        New
22              michael                    Up 2
23              ninja                         New
24              mustang                   New
25              password1                New

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