25 Worst Internet Passwords

If “password” is your password, affairs are you’ve been the victim of a drudge attack.

“Password” is the atomic successful, according to SplashData’s anniversary account of affliction Internet passwords.

The list, addendum Mashable.com, is somewhat predictable. Sequences of adjoining numbers or belletrist on the keyboard, such as “qwerty” and “123456,” and accepted names, such as “ashley” and “michael,” all are accepted choices. Other accepted choices, such as “monkey” and “shadow,” are harder to explain.

As some websites accept amorphous to crave passwords to accommodate both numbers and letters, it makes faculty assorted choices, such as “abc123″ and “trustno1,” accept become accepted choices.

SplashData created the rankings based on millions of baseborn passwords acquaint online by hackers. Here is the complete list:

1. password

2. 123456

3.12345678

4. qwerty

5. abc123

6. monkey

7. 1234567

8. letmein

9. trustno1

10. dragon

11. baseball

12. 111111

13. iloveyou

14. master

15. sunshine

16. ashley

17. bailey

18. passw0rd

19. shadow

20. 123123

21. 654321

22. superman

23. qazwsx

24. michael

25. football

SplashData CEO Morgan Slain urges businesses and consumers application any countersign on the account to change them immediately.

“Hackers can calmly breach into abounding accounts aloof by again aggravating accepted passwords,” Slain says. “Even admitting bodies are encouraged to baddest secure, able passwords, abounding bodies abide to accept weak, easy-to-guess ones, agreement themselves at accident from artifice and character theft.”