Nordpass has revealed its 6th edition of the most easy-to-crack passwords
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A report has revealed that in Poland, the 14 most popular passwords can be tracked in a minute and urges technology users to follow tips on how to create safer passwords.
Everyone knows the importance of choosing a solid and foolproof password. Creating a mix of numericals, alphabet and symbols can sometimes seem like the perfect fusion to generate the quintessentially unguessable and unbreakable passcode.
However, what if we told you that in Poland and across the world, the 14 most common passwords can be cracked in less than a minute. According to a new report published by no other than a password management website, the combinations chosen by some living or operating in Poland may be opening doors to hacking, phishing or other scam-like feats.
The firm, Nordpass, has collated and released its sixth edition of “Top 200 Most Popular Passwords” – as it says on the tin, a list of the most frequently set passwords. Conducted across 44 countries, it studied 2.5 TB of data publicly available from both personal and business accounts.
Most popular password in Poland and worldwide is 123456
The report revealed that the most popular password in Poland and worldwide for personal and business accounts is 123456, a password that strangely seems a wise password choice for over three million people globally.
A similarly popular choice is the word “password”, as well as adjacent key combinations . Among Poland’s top 20 crackable-in-a-second passwords are qwerty123 and zaq12wsx. Popular Polish name for men, “Bartek” when used as a password made it 57 seconds more difficult for a password hacker to crack, but was still under a minute.
Password: 20 characters, upper and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols
In the report, Nordpass commented:“After analyzing six years of data, we can conclude that there has been no significant improvement in password habits. Despite the efforts of many organizations to increase awareness, the problem is still widespread.” It has however been forward-thinking in providing tips for securing passwords more robustly. In its report, Nordpass added: “It should be at least 20 characters long and contain a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special symbols. Avoid information that is easy to guess, such as birthdays, names or common words.”
Living in a world where online content has moved surreptitiously away from convenience and abundance to insecurity and danger, it is remember that we ourselves can help to protect ourselves with care in the same way as we lock our front doors. Starting with a foolproof password is certainly the first sturdy bolt.
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