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The Worst Passwords of 2018 are Just as Dumb as You'd Expect;
"Password" will never be a good password. Period.
[...] It doesn't look like we're getting any smarter about our passwords.
On Thursday, software company SplashData released its annual list of the Top 100 worst passwords, and it includes some pretty obvious blunders. Coming in at No. 1 is, you guessed it, "123456," and in second place is, yup, "password." This is the fifth year in a row these passwords have held the top two spots.
Newcomers to the list include "666666" (No. 14), "princess" (No. 11) and "donald" (No. 23).
[...] To compile its list, SplashData evaluated more than 5 million leaked passwords, mostly from users in North America and Western Europe. The company estimates that about 10 percent of people have used at least one of the Top 25 worst passwords, and about 3 percent have used "123456."
[...] Here are the 25 worst passwords of 2018, according to SplashData:
1) 123456
2) password
3) 123456789
4) 12345678
5) 12345
6) 111111
7) 1234567
8) sunshine
9) qwerty
10) iloveyou
11) princess
12) admin
13) welcome
14) 666666
15) abc123
16) football
17) 123123
18) monkey
19) 654321
20) !@#$%^&*
21) charlie
22) aa123456
23) donald
24) password1
25) qwerty123
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 14 2018, @11:24AM (7 children)
I see that "abcdef" is not on the list (well, at least not on the short list; I can't see the full list without JavaScript), so I guess I'm still safe. :-)
But of course I'm joking here; as xkcd reader I certainly know that the only truly safe password is "Correct Horse Battery Staple" and use it everywhere. ;-)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday December 14 2018, @12:18PM (5 children)
I use passwords that are obvious to the learned for my wifi access points (I manage around 1,500 for my company). For instance:
SSID: "fritteredawaybydetail", Pass: "simplify"
SSID: "eequals", pass: "mcsquared"
SSID: "somethingrotten", pass: "denmark"
SSID: "hovercarftfisfull", pass: "ofeels"
I've yet to detect a successful login. It pays to capitalize on the state of the educational system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 14 2018, @12:25PM (4 children)
who's that MC Squarre
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 14 2018, @01:11PM (2 children)
MC Square is the peg MC Hammer drove into the MC Round hole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 14 2018, @06:49PM
Was that peg going into a McWindow or a McMac?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 15 2018, @01:22AM
Wow, inoffensive nerd humor I actually found to be funny. A rare case, indeed.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday December 15 2018, @02:47AM
Undoubtedly the guy whose "hovercarft" is full of eels (poor guy). These days, it's hard to get a proper exterminator for the eels in one's hovercarft. Ah, the state of educatoin in these timse.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:09PM
Mine isn't either.
Nobody would ever think that it's the same as the combination for my luggage!