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The Most Popular Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password"

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-have-the-same-password-on-my-luggage dept.

BarbaraHudson writes: The Independent lists the most popular passwords for 2014, and once again, "123456" tops the list, followed by "password" and "12345" at #3 (lots of Spaceballs fans out there?) . "qwerty" still makes the list, but there are some new entries in the top 25, including "superman", "batman", and "696969". The passwords used were mostly from North American and Western European leaks.

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  1. Re:qwerty? by rasmusbr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just hope that the system doesn't insist on you having a combination of letters, numbers, lowercase, uppercase and special characters

    Incorrect1!