25 Most Common Passwords in 2012
The passwords below make the top 25 most common passwords for Year 2012. The ranking was created by SplashData with the millions of published stolen passwords by hackers. These passwords are very predictable and this implies that organizations, if they want higher security in protecting their systems, may need to take more measures to educate their employees and the users of their information systems. Most weak passwords can be broken within less than a minute with the availability of a variety of password-breaking tools and password dictionaries.
Here is the list:
- password (Unchanged)
- 123456 (Unchanged)
- 12345678 (Unchanged)
- abc123 (Up 1)
- qwerty (Down 1)
- monkey (Unchanged)
- letmein (Up 1)
- dragon (Up 2)
- 111111 (Up 3)
- baseball (Up 1)
- iloveyou (Up 2)
- trustno1 (Down 3)
- 1234567 (Down 6)
- sunshine (Up 1)
- master (Down 1)
- 123123 (Up 4)
- welcome (New)
- shadow (Up 1)
- ashley (Down 3)
- football (Up 5)
- jesus (New)
- michael (Up 2)
- ninja (New)
- mustang (New)
- password1 (New)
