{"id":987,"date":"2017-01-17T14:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technology-solved.com\/huntsville-al\/?p=987"},"modified":"2022-02-02T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:18:21","slug":"one-six-accounts-secured-password-123456","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technology-solved.com\/huntsville-al\/one-six-accounts-secured-password-123456\/","title":{"rendered":"One in Six Accounts Secured With Password &#8216;123456&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-988\" src=\"\/huntsville-al\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/01\/Password.jpg\" alt=\"Password\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team at Keeper, a password manager application, has compiled a list of 2016&#8217;s most commonly used passwords, and yet again people have chosen the simplistic &#8220;123456&#8221; as their favorite password in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Keeper team, this list has been compiled by aggregating passwords leaked in data breaches during the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The Keeper team assembled over 10 million leaked user records, and after analyzing the leaked data, more than 1.7 million accounts were secured with the &#8220;123456&#8221; password, almost one in every six profiles.<\/p>\n<p>123456 ranked first for the third year in a row, after similar research from TeamsID placed it at the top of the worst passwords list in both 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of the worst passwords of 2016 is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>123456<br \/>\n123456789<br \/>\nqwerty<br \/>\n12345678<br \/>\n111111<br \/>\n1234567890<br \/>\n1234567<br \/>\npassword<br \/>\n123123<br \/>\n987654321<br \/>\nqwertyuiop<br \/>\nmynoob<br \/>\n123321<br \/>\n666666<br \/>\n18atcskd2w<br \/>\n7777777<br \/>\n1q2w3e4r<br \/>\n654321<br \/>\n555555<br \/>\n3rjs1la7qe<br \/>\ngoogle<br \/>\n1q2w3e4r5t<br \/>\n123qwe<br \/>\nzxcvbnm<br \/>\n1q2w3e<br \/>\nMost of the above passwords are simple combinations that we&#8217;ve seen time and time again, but two passwords stand apart, due to their high-level of complexity: 18atcskd2w and 3rjs1la7qe.<\/p>\n<p>These passwords belong to accounts leaked from the VerticalScope Network in June, and most likely belong to spam bots that have signed up for the VerticalScope forums.<\/p>\n<p>Besides these two passwords, the top 25 list is pestered with simple passwords, showing once more why using a password manager to generate and remember passwords is a must in your daily cyber-life, where sometimes you might need to handle and remember tens or hundreds of passwords each month. Without a password manager, most users resort to reusing (complex) passwords, or using simplistic passwords that are easy to guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team at Keeper, a password manager application, has compiled a list of 2016&#8217;s most commonly used passwords, and yet again people have chosen the simplistic &#8220;123456&#8221; as their favorite password in 2016. According to the Keeper team, this list has been compiled by aggregating passwords leaked in data breaches during the past year. 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