Elderly Use More Secure Passwords Than Millennials, Says Report (qz.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Quartz: A report released May 24 by Gigya surveyed 4,000 adults in the U.S. and U.K. and found that 18- to 34-year-olds are more likely to use bad passwords and report their online accounts being compromised. The majority of respondents ages 51 to 69 say they completely steer away from easily cracked passwords like "password," "1234," or birthdays, while two-thirds of those in the 18-to-34 age bracket were caught using those kind of terms. Quartz writes, "The diligence of the older group could help explain why 82% of respondents in this age range did not report having had any of their online accounts compromised in the past year. In contrast, 35% of respondents between 18 and 34 said at least one of their accounts was hacked within the last 12 months, twice the rate of those aged 51 to 69."

Comments

51 is "elderly"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn.

Re:Age bias much?

[MrKrillls]

I'm 64. 65 is elderly.

Impenetrable

[PopeRatzo]

I'm elderly and my password is so strong that I forget it in 2009 and haven't been able to log in to anything since.