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