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• January 20, 2015, 1:58 PM ET

’123456′ Again: The Most Popular Passwords Aren’t Changing

ByRani Molla

Reuters

This is not a reprinted mistake: The most commonly used password in 2014 was “123456,” a security company says.
Despite the high-profile hacking attacks last year, people are still using passwords that security analysts say should have been in the dustbin years ago. Both “123456″ and “password” have been the top two passwords since security-app provider SplashData began measuring the most frequently used passwords in 2011.
Here’s how the top 10 passwords have changed over time, according to SplashData.

SplashData compiled 3.3 million leaked passwords that were posted online by hackers either looking to share the information or prove that they could, SplashData CEO Morgan Slain said. Most of the data came from people in North America and Western Europe. Fortunately, Slain said, the top 25 passwords only make up 2.2% of all passwords, down from about 6% when the list was first compiled years ago.
A good password should be difficult to crack, with a combinations of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers and special characters — definitely not the word “password.” It should be unique to each site, but if it’s too difficult to manage multiple passwords, a number of third-party password managers can help. Here’s Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler’s latest update.

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