What were the most frequently used passwords in 2018? It turns out that despite constant information campaigns on cybersecurity, Internet users still set "123456" as a password for, for example, their Facebook. What other strings did they use?
Every year they come into being millions of accounts on the Internet for which passwords are set. As it turns out, many people still commit the same mistakes. As indicated in the latest report by the cybersecurity group SplashData, most often, "hacked" accounts had a password set, e.g. "123456" or "password". In practice, not having a strong enough password will result loss of more than your account, but in many cases also and moneyy.
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The above-mentioned group published the most used passwords in 2018. List below:
- 123456
- Password
- 123456789
- 12345678
- 12345
- 111111
- 1234567
- sunshine
- QWERTY
- jeg elsker deg
- princess
- admin
- welcome
- 66666
- abc123
- Football
- 123123
- monkey
- 654321
- !! @ # $% ^ & *
Do you recognize yours?
If you have set a password similar to any of the above - consider changing it now. It is also worth knowing that it is not a very good idea use of the same password to several different accounts. The same applies to using the same, for example e-mail to log in to Gmail, Netflix and others Internet services. There is such a solution facilitation tasks for a potential person who will hack us into an account.
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How do hackers get passwords?
Not only the most used passwords in 2018 are the reason you lose access to your account. Hackers also use others for this purpose methods. The oldest of them include the so-called “Trojan horses”, most often found in links in received emails of unknown origin (you don't open them, right?). are also used spyware applications, as well as, for example, programs for random password cracking.
One of the newest methods is the so-called "phishing". A cheater in this situation impersonates another institution or a person in order to obtain a password for e.g. a bank account. This is why all banks report that “Bank employees nThey never ask for any passwords".
How do I set a secure password?
they have one thing in common - they are very easy to guess and easy to remember. In 2003, the American William Burr produced 8 pages of a government report on creation secure passwords online. In short - the most secure password should alternate with liter and special characters, in a way that is difficult to remember – e.g. “Tr0ub4dor&”. Certainly, using words like “Pass0rd” or “qwerty” is not a good idea.
