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This is a list of the most common passwords, discovered in various data breaches. Common passwords generally are not recommended on account of low password strength.[1]

List

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NordPass

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NordPass conducted the most breached passwords research in 2021.[2] The company gathered the top 200 worst passwords from a database of 275,699,516 passwords.

Top 20 most common passwords according to NordPass[3]
Rank 2021
1 123456
2 123456789
3 12345
4 qwerty
5 password
6 12345678
7 111111
8 123123
9 1234567890
10 1234567
11 qwerty123
12 000000
13 1q2w3e
14 aa12345678
15 abc123
16 password1
17 1234
18 qwertyuiop
19 123321
20 password123

SplashData

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The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData.[4] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year. In the 2016 edition, the 25 most common passwords made up more than 10% of the surveyed passwords, with the most common password of 2016, "123456", making up 4%.[5]

Top 25 most common passwords by year according to SplashData
Rank 2011[6] 2012[7] 2013[8] 2014[9] 2015[10] 2016[5] 2017[11] 2018[12] 2019[13]
1 password password 123456 123456 123456 123456 123456 123456 123456
2 123456 123456 password password password password password password 123456789
3 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345 12345678 12345 12345678 123456789 qwerty
4 qwerty abc123 qwerty 12345678 qwerty 12345678 qwerty 12345678 password
5 abc123 qwerty abc123 qwerty 12345 football 12345 12345 1234567
6 monkey monkey 123456789 123456789 123456789 qwerty 123456789 111111 12345678
7 1234567 letmein 111111 1234 football 1234567890 letmein 1234567 12345
8 letmein dragon 1234567 baseball 1234 1234567 1234567 sunshine iloveyou
9 trustno1 111111 iloveyou dragon 1234567 princess football qwerty 111111
10 dragon baseball adobe123[a] football baseball 1234 iloveyou iloveyou 123123
11 baseball iloveyou 123123 1234567 welcome login admin princess abc123
12 111111 trustno1 admin monkey 1234567890 welcome welcome admin qwerty123
13 iloveyou 1234567 1234567890 letmein abc123 solo monkey welcome 1q2w3e4r
14 master sunshine letmein abc123 111111 abc123 login 666666 admin
15 sunshine master photoshop[a] 111111 1qaz2wsx admin abc123 abc123 qwertyuiop
16 ashley 123123 1234 mustang dragon 121212 starwars football 654321
17 bailey welcome monkey access master flower 123123 123123 555555
18 passw0rd shadow shadow shadow monkey passw0rd dragon monkey lovely
19 shadow ashley sunshine master letmein dragon passw0rd 654321 7777777
20 123123 football 12345 michael login sunshine master !@#$%^&* welcome
21 654321 jesus password1 superman princess master hello charlie 888888
22 superman michael princess 696969 qwertyuiop hottie freedom aa123456 princess
23 qazwsx ninja azerty 123123 solo loveme whatever donald dragon
24 michael mustang trustno1 batman passw0rd zaq1zaq1 qazwsx password1 password1
25 Football password1 000000 trustno1 starwars password1 trustno1 qwerty123 123qwe

Keeper

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Password manager Keeper compiled its own list of the 25 most common passwords in 2016, from 25 million passwords leaked in data breaches that year.[15]

Top 25 most common passwords according to Keeper
Rank 2016[15]
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 18atcskd2w
16 7777777
17 1q2w3e4r
18 654321
19 555555
20 3rjs1la7qe
21 google
22 1q2w3e4r5t
23 123qwe
24 zxcvbnm
25 1q2w3e

National Cyber Security Centre

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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) compiled its own list of the 20 most common passwords in 2019, from 100 million passwords leaked in data breaches that year.[16]

Top 20 most common passwords according to NCSC
Rank 2019[16]
1 123456
2 123456789
3 qwerty
4 password
5 1111111
6 12345678
7 abc123
8 1234567
9 password1
10 12345
11 1234567890
12 123123
13 000000
14 Iloveyou
15 1234
16 1q2w3e4r5t
17 Qwertyuiop
18 123
19 Monkey
20 Dragon

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b The presence of "adobe123" and "photoshop" on 2013's list was skewed by the large number of Adobe passwords included in the collected data due to a major security breach in 2013 that affected over 48 million Adobe users.[8][14]

References

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  1. ^ Titcomb, James (March 23, 2016). "Do you have one of the most common passwords? They're ridiculously easy to guess". The Telegraph. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  2. ^ "The 200 Worst Passwords of 2021 Are Here and Oh My God". gizmodo.com. November 17, 2021.
  3. ^ "Most common passwords of 2021". nordpass.com. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  4. ^ Mastroianni, Brian (January 20, 2016). "These were the 25 worst passwords of 2015". CBS News.
  5. ^ a b Bruner, Raisa (January 23, 2017). "The 25 Worst Passwords You Should Never Use". TIME.
  6. ^ Ho, Erica (November 22, 2011). "The 25 Most Popular (and Worst) Passwords of 2011". TIME.
  7. ^ Waxman, Olivia B. (October 25, 2012). "The 25 worst passwords of 2012". CNN. Archived from the original on October 31, 2012.
  8. ^ a b Newman, Jared (January 20, 2014). "The 25 worst passwords of 2013: 'password' gets dethroned". PC World.
  9. ^ Waxman, Olivia (January 20, 2015). "These Are The 25 Worst Passwords of 2014". TIME.
  10. ^ Chang, Lulu (January 19, 2016). "Wookie mistake: 'starwars' is now one of the world's 25 worst passwords". Digital Trends.
  11. ^ Korosec, Kirsten (December 19, 2017). "The 25 Most Common Passwords of 2017 Include 'Star Wars'". FORTUNE.
  12. ^ Ehrenkranz, Melanie (December 13, 2018). "The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2018 Will Make You Feel Like a Security Genius". Gizmodo.
  13. ^ Keck, Catie (December 18, 2019). "It's Time to Nervously Mock the 50 Worst Passwords of the Year". Gizmodo.
  14. ^ Kelly, Heather (January 22, 2014). "'123456' tops list of worst passwords". CNN.
  15. ^ a b McGoogan, Cara (January 16, 2017). "The world's most common passwords revealed: Are you using them?". The Daily Telegraph.
  16. ^ a b "NCSC Reveals List Of World's Most Hacked Passwords". Forbes. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
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