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Writing, and remembering, a unique password is a true skill and one that's overlooked in this fast-paced world.
Sadly, not all of us have time to be unique and some of us keep relying on the old faithful which leaves us wide open to hackers and scammers and bears - oh my!
Today data agency and password provider SplashDash released their annual list of passwords that have been leaked by over 5 million online users. The passwords predominantly came from North America and Western Europe. The worst offender and biggest no, no was the classic 123456 and the word "password". Dragon has become one of the more popular passwords which we're assuming might have something to do with Game Of Thrones.
Here are the first 25 passwords that should be left in 2017:
- 123456
- Password
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 12345
- 123456789
- letmein
- 1234567
- football
- iloveyou
- admin
- welcome
- monkey
- login
- abc123
- starwars
- 123123
- dragon
- passw0rd
- master
- hello
- freedom
- whatever
- qazwsx
- trustno1
Other common passwords include "fuck you", "asshole" and "blahblah". Well if you're wondering how to come up with an original password simply make sure to use lower and upper case letters. Splashdata also recommends that the best thing you can do it is to try and change your password for each website, as annoying as that sounds.
Check out the full list of popular passwords here.
