This is the sixth in a series of 12 tips to help you improve your online safety.
If you’ve been reading the other tips so far, you’ll know the recommendations of:
- using a different password for each site
- using a password manager
- letting an automated password creator suggest a password for you.
SplashData have done some analysis of the passwords collected from the many data breaches, and compiled a list of the worst 100 passwords in 2017.
Note that some of the passwords on the list are distinctly rude, hence the list below stopping at number 33:
- 123456
- password
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 12345
- 123456789
- letmein
- 1234567
- football
- iloveyou
- admin
- welcome
- monkey
- login
- abc123
- starwars
- 123123
- dragon
- passw0rd
- master
- hello
- freedom
- whatever
- qazwsx
- trustno1
- 654321
- jordan23
- harley
- password1
- 1234
- robert
- matthew
- jordan