21 January 2010

Top 10 most commonly used passwords

Imperva has released the top 10 most commonly used passwords. Its findings are from the Rockyou.com hack that occurred in 2009.

The top 10 passwords, including the word password are:

1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess
7. rockyou
8. 1234567
9. 12345678
10. abc123
11. Nicole
12. Daniel
13. babygirl
14. monkey
15. Jessica
16. Lovely
17. michael
18. Ashley
19. 654321
10. Qwerty

The full report can be downloaded here http://www.imperva.com/docs/WP_Consumer_Password_Worst_Practices.pdf

See our advice on passwords http://softwareandsupport.blogspot.com/2008/09/passwords.html

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