For the 2nd year in a row, the password “123456” has been revealed as the very worst password.
The bad password list was put together by SplashData, a company that provides password management utilities. They compiled the list by analyzing more than five million user records leaked online in 2017.
For the second year in a row, football is the only sport to crack the Top 25 — though it dropped four spots on this year’s list to the #9 spot.
The “loveme” password has been replaced on this year’s list with “iloveyou.” Other new appearances on the list include “letmein”, “monkey”, “hello”, “freedom”, “whatever” and “trustno1.” One other new entry is “qazwsx” from the two left columns on standard keyboards – demonstrating the importance of avoiding simple patterns.
Here is the list of the 25 Worst Passwords of 2017:
- 123456 (rank unchanged since 2016 list)
- password (unchanged)
- 12345678 (up 1)
- qwerty (Up 2)
- 12345 (Down 2)
- 123456789 (New)
- letmein (New)
- 1234567 (Unchanged)
- football (Down 4)
- iloveyou (New)
- admin (Up 4)
- welcome (Unchanged)
- monkey (New)
- login (Down 3)
- abc123 (Down 1)
- starwars (New)
- 123123 (New)
- dragon (Up 1)
- passw0rd (Down 1)
- master (Up 1)
- hello (New)
- freedom (New)
- whatever (New)
- qazwsx (New)
- trustno1 (New)
So there you have it – the very worst passwords of the last year – we hope you didn’t have any of your passwords in the list!