The World’s Worst Passwords

During the first six months of 2019, more than 4 billion records were exposed by data breaches. That’s a shocking statistic that’s made even more so when you realize that passwords were included in droves.

Asecurity researcher discovered a treasure trove of more than a billion plain-text passwords in an unsecured online database.

Here are just the top 20 worst passwords. If any of them look at all familiar, go and change the respective account login credentials immediately.

1. 12345

2. 123456

3. 123456789

4. test1

5. password

6. 12345678

7. zinch

8. g_czechout

9. asdf

10. 10.qwerty

11. 1234567890

12. 1234567

13. Aa123456.

14. iloveyou

15. 1234

16. abc123

17. 111111

18. 123123

19. dubsmash

20. test