Top 200 most popular passwords of 2019. Check if your
News Technologies / / December 27, 2020
You can talk as much as you like about how important strong passwordsbut that won't stop people from using "12345" for all sites where it's allowed. Service NordPass collected statistics on the most popular combinations that were mentioned in the leaked databases of 2019 - more than 500 million passwords were stolen in total.
At the same time, many of them cannot be called unique. The most popular were "12345" and "123456" - each of them was mentioned in leaks more than 2 million times. Also among the leaders are other sequential chains of numbers, "test1", vertical and horizontal rows of keys on the keyboard ("asdfghjkl", "qazwsx", "1qaz2wsx").
Sports titles and names are also popular. The classic "password" does not lose its relevance in 2019: 830,000 mentions and fifth in the ranking. Here's what the top 50 ideal passwords look like for those who don't care about security:
A complete list of 200 passwords with the number of mentions - in blog NordPass.
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