Specialists at the British Cybersecurity Center conducted a study and published a list of the most popular, but very insecure passwords.
The three leaders were combinations of 123456, qwerty and raceword. The first password was used more than 23 million times in a variety of accounts, subsequently hacked. Over 7 million compromised accounts were password protected by a combination of 123456789, almost 4 million accounts had qwerty password. And 3.5 million accounts were password protected by the word password. The ten most insecure passwords look like this:
123456 - 23.3 million;
123456789 - 7.6 million;
qwerty - 3.9 million;
raceword - 3.5 million;
1111111 - 3.2 million;
12345678 - 2.8 million;
abс123 - 2.7 million;
1234567 - 2.4 million;
raceword1 - 2.3 million;
12345 - 2.2 million
Experts recommend users to create passwords with a length of at least 8 characters. Among them should be both uppercase and lowercase letters. Be sure to add a few numbers and special characters. The password should not contain personal information or obvious words and phrases that are easy to select.
