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WASHINGTON POST: Passwords uncovered by decoders find cheaters are poor at picking safe passwords.

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WASHINGTON POST: Passwords uncovered by decoders find cheaters are poor at picking safe passwords.

The top password uncovered so far: 123456, according to Ars Technica. The other passwords that made the top five aren’t much better: 12345, password, DEFAULT, and 123456789.

But those (awful) passwords shouldn’t be too surprising: By some surveys, “123456” has been the most popular password uncovered in data breaches during the past two years.

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