Again the password 123456 was the most used in 2016

Every year, different security companies carry out a study where they show us which ones have been the passwords most used by users, passwords that more than some of you can use, so if last year when reading this article, which I publish every year, you did not change it, it may be time to do it, if you do not want to be a victim of an intrusion in your privacy. Creating and remembering a password for each of the services we use every day, we know it is complicated, but from there to use passwords as simple as 123456, qwerty, 111111, password ...

Throughout the past year and according to the Keeper Security company, which has analyzed millions of accounts that have been hacked has made a list in which we can see which are the passwords most used by users, some passwords that as we can see are very easy to remember and that are also the perfect tool so that anyone who wants to access our privacy can do so by trying any of these passwords :

The 25 most used passwords in 2016

  1. 123456
  2. 123456789
  3. QWERTY
  4. 12345678
  5. 111111
  6. 1234567890
  7. 1234567
  8. Password
  9. 123123
  10. 987654321
  11. qwertyuiop
  12. mynoob
  13. 123321
  14. 666666
  15. 18actskd2w
  16. 777777
  17. 1q2w3e4r
  18. 654321
  19. 555555
  20. 3rjs1la7qe
  21. google
  22. 1q2w3e4r5t
  23. 123qwe
  24. zxcvbnm
  25. 1q2w3e

Among all the passwords, the one that attracts the most attention is 18actskd2w, a password that does not correspond to any of the others, which, as we can see, follow patterns of the key situation. According to the firm This password is the one used by bots to create accounts to send spam.

From Actualidad Gadget We have published several articles where we show you various tips to create secure passwords and applications that will help you remember them at all times, but if we follow a few small tricks there will be no need to resort to applications of this type. To create a secure password we must combine uppercase and lowercase letters, together with numbers and some special characters such as the dollar symbol, the percentage ...


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