SplashData, a password management company, has released its annual list of worst passwords that were used in 2015.
The list was obtained through tallying the most used from more than two million passwords that leaked online last year. The company was able to see that people made the effort to create longer passwords, which is supposedly a good thing, if not for the fact that the long passwords are of obvious patterns, like "1234567890" and "qwertyuiop," PC World reports.
"We have seen an effort by many people to be more secure by adding characters to passwords, but if these longer passwords are based on simple patterns they will put you in just as much risk of having your identity stolen by hackers," said Morgan Slain, SplashData chief executive, according to Wall Street Journal.
Here is the complete list of the worst passwords of 2015:
1 - 123456
2 - password
3 - 12345678
4 - qwerty
5 - 12345
6 - 123456789
7 - football
8 - 1234
9 - 1234567
10 - baseball
11 - welcome
12 - 1234567890
13 - abc123
14 - 111111
15 - 1qaz2wsx
16 - dragon
17 - master
18 - monkey
19 - letmein
20 - login
21 - princess
22 - qwertyuiop
23 - solo
24 - passw0rd
25 - starwars
List from CNet.
If you do not wish for your account to be hacked, have a minimum of 12 mixed characters and have different passwords for different sites. If you have difficulty remembering all passwords, its a good idea to download an app where you can keep your password list.
