Most Common Passwords Found From Breaches

Here are the Most Common Passwords Found From Breaches in 2019

Researchers analyzed data leaked in various data breaches to bring this study forward.
Passwords ‘12345,’ ‘123456,’ and ‘123456789’ were the most common passwords, followed by ‘test1’ and, of course, the password ‘password’.
A bunch of independent anonymous researchers composed a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019 and shared it with security firm Nord Pass.

• The notorious Collections #1-5 breaches alone exposed 3 billion records.
• Weak password logic also included strings of letters forming a horizontal or vertical line on the keyboard, such as asdfghjkl, qazwsx, 1qaz2wsx, etc.
• The most obvious—‘password’— remained popular with 830,846 people still using it.
• Passwords ‘12345,’ ‘123456,’ and ‘123456789’ were the most common passwords, followed by ‘test1’ and, the password ‘password’.
• Passwords containing popular female names included Nicole, Jessica, Hannah, etc.

Top 25 list of worst passwords

Below is the Top 25 list out of the 200 most popular passwords shared by the experts:

1. 12345
2. 123456
3. 123456789
4. test1
5. password
6. 12345678
7. zinch
8. g_czechout
9. asdf
10. qwerty
11. 1234567890
12. 1234567
13. Aa123456.
14. iloveyou
15. 1234
16. abc123
17. 111111
18. 123123
19. dubsmash
20. test
21. princess
22. qwertyuiop
23. sunshine
24. BvtTest123
25. 11111