If you use one of these terrible passwords you have won a place among the worst of 2018

Year after year, year after year, the most used passwords are published and they are always the ones you imagine with very few surprises. They are the worst possible, and this year's list published by SplashData with the worst 100 passwords of 2018 once again shows that '123456' does not go out of style.




At least 10% of people use one of the 25 worst passwords on the list, where they appear great of all time as "password", "12345" or "qwerty". And almost 3% of people use the worst of all: "123456".

After evaluating more than 5 million passwords filtered on the Internet, the company found that users remain equally predictable year after year, verifying that despite all the time we have been pursuing security in passwords, even the most basic measures they still do not reach out to the general public.

The report mainly includes filtered data from users in North America and Western Europe, and although most of the most used passwords repeat their appearances at the top of the list, there are also some terrible news in the top positions like "donald", "111111" or the genius of "654321" which is basically the worst password but the other way around. Special mention to "! @ # $% ^ & *" Which is the same but pressing Shift on the keyboard.
Easy to guess and hard to remember

That's exactly the opposite of how a good password should be, many people choose simple and terrible passwords because they are easy to remember, but sometimes they choose it so quickly and randomly that they also forget what it was.

Building a secure password that is also easy to remember is not that difficult, it is not necessary to scroll your life using special characters, uppercase, lowercase, numbers and letters, after all even whoever invented that recommendation initially says to be wrong.

What matters most is the length, use long and easy to remember phrases, such as sentences that you remember or that are important to you, or part of a song, you can create your own rules and play a little with them. And if all this seems like a lot of complication, you can always use a password manager to do the hard work for you.

But please, do not use any of these:

    123456
    password
    123456789
    12345678
    12345
    111111
    1234567
    sunshine
    QWERTY
    iloveyou
    princess
    admin
    welcome
    666666
    abc123
    football
    123123
    monkey
    654321
    ! @ # $% ^ & *
    charlie
    aa123456
    donald
    password1
    qwerty123

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