Worst passwords of 2013

The password “123456” was the most commonly used password of 2013, according to research conducted by SplashData, quoted by La Vangurdia. It is also the most insecure password that a user can have, say sources cited.

The following positions are occupied all sequential combinations such as “password”, “12345678”, “qwerty” and “abc123″.

SplashData has also explained that this year’s list shows that when we have account on a particular site, we  should not include the site name in the password. And this is proved by what happened when Adobe accounts of nearly three million users were broken. A large number of passwords contained the word “adobe”.

In the establishment of the weakest top 25 keywords in 2013, SplashData have relied on archives with millions of passwords stolen and made public last year. They also recommended, to change passwords if they resemble those included in the following top:

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