Thursday 21 January 2010

The ten most commonly used passwords

"1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess
7. rockyou [i.e. the name of the site the user is accessing]
8. 1234567
9. 12345678
10. abc123"
Source: Data compiled from 32m passwords leaked from the company RockYou, analysed by Imperva, and reported by The Guardian, 21st January 2010

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