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Is your password on this list? If it is, then it’s time to change it.
“SplashData, a password management applications provide, has announced its annual list of the 25 most common passwords found on the Internet,” reports PRWeb.
The report noted: “In its fourth annual report, compiled from more than 3.3 million leaked passwords in 2014, ‘123456’ and ‘password’ continue to hold the top two spots that they have held each year since the first list in 2011.”
The report also added that passwords appearing for the first time on SplashData’s list include ‘696969’ and ‘batman.'”
The following are the Top 25 Worst Passwords of 2014:
1) 123456
2) password
3) 12345
4) 12345678
5) qwerty
6) 1234567890
7) 1234
8) baseball
9) dragon
10) football
11) 1234567
12) monkey
13) letmein
14) abc123
15) 111111
16) mustang
17) access
18) shadow
19) master
20) michael
21) superman
22) 696969
23) 123123
24) batman
25) trustno1
In any case, the report revealed that “according to SplashData, the passwords evaluated for the 2014 list were mostly held by users in North America and Western Europe.”
Our question: Are people from other parts of the world any different when it comes to choosing passwords?
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