{"id":62072,"date":"2013-12-05T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/?p=62072"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:57:09","slug":"the-20-worst-passwords-you-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/the-20-worst-passwords-you-can-use\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20 Worst Passwords You Can Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Password-Security.jpg\" alt=\"Password Security\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Password-Security.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Password-Security-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Password-Security-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Password-Security-900x676.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent hacking attacks have proven that most people don&#8217;t do a good job protecting their data online. Back in October, Adobe reported that its systems were penetrated by attackers who stole 38 million user accounts and passwords.<\/p>\n<p>According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-24821528\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> &#8220;123456&#8221; was the most popular password among the compromised Adobe accounts. About 1.9 million people used the sequence.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week experts from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spiderlabs.com\/2013\/12\/look-what-i-found-moar-pony.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Spiderlab<\/a> said that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/12\/05\/us-cybercrime-pony-idUSBRE9B400W20131205\" target=\"_blank\">uncovered over 2 million stolen social media passwords<\/a> from all over the world. In their report, Spiderlab concluded that &#8220;people still choose comfort over security&#8221; when choosing passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 20 most popular passwords in the Adobe hack (and simliar to Spiderlab&#8217;s top 10):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>123456<\/li>\n<li>123456789<\/li>\n<li>password<\/li>\n<li>admin<\/li>\n<li>12345678<\/li>\n<li>qwerty<\/li>\n<li>1234567<\/li>\n<li>111111<\/li>\n<li>photoshop<\/li>\n<li>123123<\/li>\n<li>1234567890<\/li>\n<li>000000<\/li>\n<li>abc123<\/li>\n<li>1234<\/li>\n<li>adobe1<\/li>\n<li>macromedia<\/li>\n<li>azerty<\/li>\n<li>iloveyou<\/li>\n<li>aaaaaa<\/li>\n<li>654321<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you any of your passwords in the list above, it&#8217;s time to update them! There are many tools for creating secure passwords. You can either use a password vault like <a href=\"https:\/\/lastpass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LastPass<\/a> or just create a secure password using online tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/passwordsgenerator.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">passwordsgenerator.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent hacking attacks have proven that most people don&#8217;t do a good job protecting their data online. 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