Passwords have become an indispensable part of our daily digital life. So much so that we often use it when creating an account on the internet and logging into these accounts. But if the password we set is easy, it may do us more harm than good. Finally, today, the NordPass team shared the most popular passwords.
Do not use these passwords to avoid having your account stolen!
The NordPass team shared the most widely used passwords in 2022. Security experts, who shared this report by examining a 3 TB database, also published a special list of 30 countries, but unfortunately Turkey is not among these countries.
According to the data in the NordPass report, the most widely used password worldwide is “password“It happened. This password, which means “password” in Turkish, 4 million 929 thousand 113 used by the person and 1 secondIt was found that it could break in less than a minute.
Experts warned: Here are those passwords that are broken in seconds!
The most popular passwords for 2022 have been revealed. Thousands of users continue to use these simple passwords on their accounts.
We see that there are easily crackable passwords such as “123456”, “123456789” and “Guest” in the list. According to the information in the report, these passwords are also used by millions of people. You can find the rest of the list below.
Here are the most commonly used passwords in 2022:
| Order | Password | Breaking Time | Number of Users |
|---|---|---|---|
| one | password | <1 second | 4 million 929 thousand 113 |
| 2 | 123456 | <1 second | 1 million 523 thousand 537 |
| 3 | 123456789 | <1 second | 413 thousand 56 |
| guest | 10 seconds | 376 thousand 417 | |
| 5 | qwerty | <1 second | 389 thousand 679 |
| 6 | 12345678 | <1 second | 284 thousand 946 |
| 7 | 111111 | <1 second | 229 thousand 47 |
| 8 | 12345 | <1 second | 188 thousand 682 |
| 9 | co1123456 | 11 seconds | 140 thousand 505 |
| 18 | 123123 | <1 second | 127 thousand 762 |
| 11th | 1234567 | <1 second | 110 thousand 279 |
| 12 | 1234 | <1 second | 106 thousand 929 |
| 13 | 1234567890 | <1 second | 105 thousand 189 |
| 14 | 000000 | <1 second | 102 thousand 636 |
| 15 | 555555 | <1 second | 98 thousand 353 |
How to create strong password?
- Use a long password. Short passwords are easily guessed.
- Use a combination of different characters in your password, such as uppercase letters (AZ), lowercase letters (az), numbers (0-9) and special characters (#, $, !, etc.). This makes your password more complex and strong.
- Avoid personal information (name, date of birth, etc.) or popular passwords that can be guessed in general.
- Use unique passwords for each account and do not repeat the same password on multiple accounts. Thus, if one of your accounts is compromised, your other accounts will not be affected.
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