We are in year 2020, therefore we cannot be still using passwords such as “123456”. Though using “password” or “12354” is considered more of a meme than an actual password that people use nowadays, Nord’s list proves otherwise.
NordPass recently published a list of the 200 worst passwords of 2020, along with details on how many times the password has been used and exposed. The website also included rank changes from the previous year and the time it takes to crack the particular password.
The results showed the top password for the year was “123456”. In second place, things weren’t much better with “123456789”. The actual word “password” landed in fourth place, while “12345” showed up in eighth place. Meanwhile, new additions to this year’s top ten most common passwords were “picture1” and “senha”.
The list ranks passwords according to how common they are — a metric that also essentially measures how bad they are since a good password by definition is unique and complex. Passwords that made it into the top 20 were exposed millions of times in breaches and shared by thousands (if not millions) of users.
See the 20 most common passwords of 2020, and how long it takes to crack them:
123456 – less than a second to crack
123456789 – less than a second to crack
picture1 – three hours to crack
password – less than a second to crack
12345678- less than a second to crack
111111 – less than a second to crack
123123 – less than a second to crack
12345 – less than a second to crack
1234567890 – less than a second to crack
senha – 10 seconds to crack
1234567 – less than a second to crack
qwerty – less than a second to crack
abc123 – less than a second to crack
Million2 – three hours to crack
000000 – less than a second to crack
1234 – less than a second to crack
iloveyou – less than a second to crack
aaron431 – three hours to crack
password1 – less than a second to crack
qqww1122 – 52 minutes to crack
To see the full list, visit the NordPass website.
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