Want to know the World's Worst passwords list of all time..? Oh..yea, then you are in the right place!
As you know... hackers are everywhere on the net. and recently, one of the popular Internet forum phpbb.com was hacked by a hacker who had stolen almost 20,000 usernames and passwords and then after released them to the public, giving us an idea how ridiculously easy passwords people use..
According to one of the surveys conducted by whatsmypass.com recently, the worst password used by most of the internet users is "123456" followed by
"password" in the second place.
Other popular choices include:
666666 : Six Sixes
7777777 : Seven Sevens
ncc1701 : Ship number of Starship Enterprise
and even words like batman, bond007, cocacola made it to the list.
Interesting Facts:
» Almost 1 out of 9 people use atleast one of the passwords mentioned on the below list.
» Almost 1 out of 50 people uses one of the top 20 worst passwords on the below list
» According the the survey by Digital Communications agency @www , an average adult human being had as many as 15 passwords to remember
» About 61% of the People use the same passwords for as many different accounts as possible in order to easily remember it and make life easier
7 comments:
Interesting facts and true too!!
keep penning!!
nice list of passwords....good one ...keep posting
quite true statement....
my previous passwords has been mentioned in ur list...lolz
lol..... im not the one using the given psw above :D
What you're saying is completely true. I know that everybody must say the same thing, but I just think that you put it in a way that everyone can understand. I'm sure you'll reach so many people with what you've got to say.
Nice post, things explained in details. Thank You.
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