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Be careful with your passwords, you can lose everything. This is what you should do if your password is on this list
With cybersecurity becoming increasingly important, here’s a look at the most commonly-used passwords in the world.

No one needs telling that cybersecurity is vital to ensuring that your properties - both digital and real-world - stay protected. Industry experts always advise random combinations of numbers, letters and special characters to rebuff all but the most dedicated of cyber-attacker.
However the reality is that many people choose a simpler, less secure life and opt for dangerously basic passwords.
In recent years industry experts have identified an increase in high-volume, ‘brute force’ attacks that rely on cycling through a list of the most common passwords. Anyone with those basic passwords could quickly find themselves exploited by hackers.
In a bid to help improve understanding of the risk, NordPass has published a list of the 200 Most Common Passwords. Researchers used a 2.5TB database of digital data, spanning 44 countries, to established which are the most common and therefore most insecure. Here’s a look at the top 20...
Most common passwords in the world
- 123456
- 123456789
- 12345678
- secret
- password
- qwert123
- qwerty1
- 111111
- 123123
- 1234567890
- qwerty
- 1234567
- 11111111
- abc123
- iloveyou
- 123123123
- 000000
- 00000000
- a123456
- password1
If you find any of your passwords on that list, or even on the top 200, you should change it to something more secure as quickly as possible. Typically the most-used passwords are simply the easiest to remember, or the easiest to type out on a ‘qwerty’ keyboard. But that short-cut could cost the user dearly.
Looking beyond the top 20, many of the most common passwords relate to interests and names. Globally terms like ‘pokemon’, ‘naruto’ and ‘samsung’ rank worryingly highly. In the United Kingdom, ‘liverpool’ is among the most popular passwords. It’s not only an English-language problem, either. Common passwords in Hungary (‘jelszo’) and Finland (‘salasana’) both translate to ‘password’.
“These findings highlight the alarming prevalence of predictable and easily hackable passwords,” said Khaled Bentoumi, co-founder of anyIP. “Hackers are increasingly using sophisticated tools to breach accounts in seconds, and relying on weak passwords is akin to leaving your front door unlocked.”
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