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The 25 worst passwords in the world in 2015

Any password using numbers alone should be avoided

Security applications provider Splashdata has released its list of the 25 most common passwords found on the Internet.

The list revealed that “123456” remains the most common password, followed by “password” and “12345678”, My Broadband reported.

Splashdata’s Worst Passwords report is compiled using millions of leaked passwords over the last year. The list of passwords shows that many people continue to put themselves at risk by using weak passwords.

Any password using numbers alone should be avoided, especially sequences. As more websites require stronger passwords or combinations of letters and numbers, longer keyboard patterns are becoming common passwords, and they are still not secure, Splashdata reported.

Here are SplashData’s 25 worst passwords of 2015:

1. 123456

2. password

3. 12345678

4. qwerty

5. 12345

6. 123456789

7. football

8. 1234

9. 1234567

10. baseball

11. welcome

12. 1234567890

13. abc123

14. 111111

15. 1qaz2wsx

16. dragon

17. master

18. monkey

19. letmein

20. login

21. princess

22. qwertyuiop

23. solo

24. passw0rd

25. starwars

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