Worst Passwords list for 2015 has been published. And ‘123456’ has been selected as worst password of the year once again in consecutive 3 years. “password” is at second place and it has been at this place since last years. Before these 3 years, it used to be at top.
“696969” and “batman” are the two new entries in this list as one of the worst passwords.
Splash Data prepare the list of worst password every year. This year, company compiled 3.3 million leaked passwords and found 25 worst passwords of the year.
It is bad to see these words appearing in the list every year. People are still using these words as password even if they know that anyone can guess these words.
If you are using any of these words as password, you should reconsider it and change your password now. You must follow the rules of creating a strong password. You must include small & capital characters, numbers and special characters in your password. Password should also have length at least 8 to make it strong.
Worst passwords of 2015
The complete list of 25 worst passwords of 2015 are below in decreasing ranking order:
123456
password
12345678
qwerty
12345
123456789
football
1234
1234567
baseball
welcome
1234567890
abc123
111111
1qaz2wsx
dragon
master
monkey
letmein
login
princess
qwertyuiop
solo
passw0rd
starwars
