Not taking the passwords seriously enough is quite a common practice among people leading to some serious problems in the long run to keep their accounts protected from hackers. We all know that hackers are presently more active than earlier, and they are utilizing this mistake of others to attempt and get unlawful access to your records and enable themselves to benefit from any of the subtleties that they figure out on how to get from these records online.
A recent survey by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed a list of passwords in the world that are the most hacked or can be hacked easily. As per the agency’s findings, millions of internet users – as many as 23.2 million users – use “123456” as their account passwords and this password is also the one most widely used in the breached accounts. Closely behind this was the password “123456789”, which was used by nearly 7.7 million users.
Here’s is a list of the top 20 passwords revealed by the NCSC as the world’s most hacked passwords-
- 123456
- 123456789
- Qwerty
- Password
- 111111
- 12345678
- abc123
- 1234567
- password1
- 12345
- 1234567890
- 123123
- 000000
- Iloveyou
- 1234
- 1q2w3e4r5t
- Qwertyuiop
- 123
- Monkey
- Dragon
Dr Ian Levy, NCSC Technical Director said in a statement, “Password re-use is a major risk that can be avoided – nobody should protect sensitive data with something that can be guessed, like their first name, local football team or favorite band. Using hard-to-guess passwords is a strong first step and we recommend combining three random but memorable words. Be creative and use words memorable to you, so people can’t guess your password.”
So, if you’re using any of these passwords, then it’s high time to change it with a strong password that’s not easy to be hacked by the hackers on the internet.
