In news that will have computer security experts celebrating and shaking their heads, it seems that the most popular password is no longer ‘password’. It’s ‘123456’.
This is according to an annual survey from mobile software developers SplashData, who have collated a massive list of the most popular passwords used online from the data revealed by high profile hacks in 2013.
The main source for this year’s list was the cyberattack that hit Adobe in October, a hack that was originally thought to have targeted2.9 million customers but was later revised to 38 million.
The Adobe hack certainly swayed the results of the survey (both ‘adobe123’ and ‘photoshop’ make their first time appearence in the list — see below for the top 25) but the unseating of ‘password’ was the biggest surprise. It was relegated to second position, followed by ‘12345678’ in third place and ‘qwerty’ in fourth.
| Rank | Password | Change from 2012 |
|
1 |
123456 |
Up 1 |
|
2 |
password |
Down 1 |
|
3 |
12345678 |
Unchanged |
|
4 |
qwerty |
Up 1 |
|
5 |
abc123 |
Down 1 |
|
6 |
123456789 |
New |
|
7 |
111111 |
Up 2 |
|
8 |
1234567 |
Up 5 |
|
9 |
iloveyou |
Up 2 |
|
10 |
adobe123 |
New |
|
11 |
123123 |
Up 5 |
|
12 |
admin |
New |
|
13 |
1234567890 |
New |
|
14 |
letmein |
Down 7 |
|
15 |
photoshop |
New |
|
16 |
1234 |
New |
|
17 |
monkey |
Down 11 |
|
18 |
shadow |
Unchanged |
|
19 |
sunshine |
Down 5 |
|
20 |
12345 |
New |
|
21 |
password1 |
Up 4 |
|
22 |
princess |
New |
|
23 |
azerty |
New |
|
24 |
trustno1 |
Down 12 |
|
25 |
000000 |
New |
