THE 25 MOST COMMON PASSWORDS OF 2017

This year’s worst passwords include the famous “123456” and “password” along with new additions like “starwars” and “trustno1.”

The password solutions company SplashData compiled a list of most common passwords based on data of five million passwords that were leaked by hackers in 2017. While we all know the popular ones “123456” and “password” which tops the list, there are few new additions this year. The list includes “starwars” (16th), “iloveyou” (10th), “monkey” (13th) and “letmein” (7th) along with other variations of “12345” and “password”. The passwords evaluated for the list are predominantly from users in North America and Western Europe and does not include data from the infamous Yahoo hack.

 “Hackers are using common terms from pop culture and sports to break into accounts online because they know many people are using those easy-to-remember words.”

Here’s a list of top 25 common passwords from the list. Make sure yours is not on the list.

1. 123456 
2. Password 
3. 12345678
4. qwerty 
5. 12345
6. 123456789 
7. letmein 
8. 1234567
9. football
10. iloveyou 
11. admin 
12. welcome 
13. monkey 
14. login 
15. abc123 
16. starwars 
17. 123123
18. dragon 
19. passw0rd 
20. master 
21. hello 
22. freedom 
23. whatever
24. qazwsx 
25. trustno1 

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