The 25 Most Commonly Used Passwords in 2012

It is mind-boggling and enough to make you shudder – to know that in this day and age there are still some people so lacking in awareness, or inventiveness that they cannot come up with any password more secure than the following.  Or is it just laziness?  ALWAYS choose a ‘secure’ password which should never have less than eight characters and should contain a mix of upper and lower case letters, digits and symbols.

1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678marketing1
4. abc123
5. qwerty
6. monkey
7. letmein
8. dragon
9. 111111
10. baseball
11. iloveyou
12. trustno1
13. 1234567
14. sunshine
15. master
16. 123123
17. welcome
18. shadow
19. ashley
20. football
21. jesus
22. michael
23. ninja
24. mustang
25. password1

Updated: 22 July, 2017 — 12:17 am