Password Hackers List

The most common passwords used online in the last year revealed [and password still tops the list]

An annual study of the most commonly used passwords has found that password, 123456 and 12345678 are still the most commonly used passwords - despite years of security experts urging people to change them to more secure versions.

The Worst Passwords of 2012, including their current ranking and any changes from the 2011 list:


1. password (Unchanged)
2, 123456 (Unchanged)
3. 12345678 (Unchanged)
4. abc123 (Up 1)
5. qwerty (Down 1)
6. monkey (Unchanged)
7. letmein (Up 1)
8. dragon (Up 2)
9. 111111 (Up 3)
10. baseball (Up 1)
11. iloveyou (Up 2)
12. trustno1 (Down 3)
13. 1234567 (Down 6)
14. sunshine (Up 1)
15. master (Down 1)
16. 123123 (Up 4)
17. welcome (New)
18. shadow (Up 1)
19. ashley (Down 3)
20. football (Up 5)
21. jesus (New)
22. michael (Up 2)
23. ninja (New)
24. mustang (New)
25. password1 (New)

Source: Splashdata
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I am stunned that people would use the word Password for there security
So if you want to have a crack at Hacking this is your starting list

Cran

I thought I had a clever password. Then I saw this list in 2010 or something. It was in top10. I even had it as my ATS password.

The best passwords are a sentences transliterated with numbers throughout, at least 15 characters in length. Some sites will even allow special characters making a brute force attack difficult. However, be aware of rainbow crack, and tables as they will put any password to shame, as they are pre-made tables full of hashes with their matching plain-text passwords.

my trusty 'password123' isn't on the list, guess i'm still safe for another year.

seems funny how anyone would think adding a 1 after "passsword" would make it a stronger password

1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ?


thats the combination to my luggage!

I was so expecting to see chucknorris in this list.. what a dissapointment

As another poster has already said - using a sentence with numbers substituted for letters works wonders. This has been my method for years (different sentence topics for different site types) along with purposefully misspelling one word in the sentence.

ex: @b0v3t0ps3cr@t would be a good pw for this site.

reply to post by dollukka

I was so expecting to see chucknorris in this list

Chuck Norris does not need a password
He just looks

Cran

reply to post by cranspace


And Arnold just looks at the screen stupidly and says " I´ll be back "

The only time I've ever used "password" or "drowssap" were for joint account for online gaming.

Other than that my password is obscure misspelled and full of numbers.

I wonder how many on this site had the #12 passkey....

trustno1

I know a guy that once used a password that confused some people when they saw it, it was "********".

reply to post by OccamAssassin


and I thought I was clever. I've learned my lesson since.

During a recent password audit, it was found that someone was using the following password

"MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento"
When asked why she had such a long password, she said
she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters
long and include at least one capital.

Cran

Solution to this password problem is to use OpenSUSE 12.2 operating systems.

i installed this operating system once with a basic (local) administrator password of ..

aDm1n15trAt0R001 for administrator001.

Its response was 'Your password is not original. Please try again.'

i was stunned beyond all comprehension thinking WTF.

A couple of these posts had me cracking up!

If all else fails, symbols and letters combined are good too.
Numbers in the place of letters work, but there's stronger things to do.

Examples: ( ...,...,63) or (?!!?ye?!!?)

But people have to remember the length or combo.
I've used a variety of passwords, usually strung together for safety.
I can't believe how many people use such easily guessed passwords.
But then again, it doesn't surprise me because of how much people put out there.

First rule of the internet:
Don't trust the internet!

(Almost common sense right?)

Originally posted by tinhattribunal
1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ?

thats the combination to my luggage!

President scrooge I salute you.

So funny There are some passwords in the list , i used to use too

reply to post by Rikku

Um...you just GAVE US your password!!!