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Are any of your passwords on this list? Shame on you!

Posted in LCS Blog

If your answer is yes; change it right now!

The annual Worst Passwords list from SplashData, which makes password management applications compiled from common passwords that are posted by hackers, has been released. Since last year the top three -- "password," "123456," and "12345678″ -- have not changed. New ones added to the list include "jesus," "ninja," "mustang," "password1," and "welcome." Other passwords have moved up and down on the list.

The most attention grabbing addition is probably "welcome."

Each and every account you have should have a different password. To make it possible to remember your password, you could use phrases like “fly a kite” and add dashes, underscores, hyphens, and other punctuation marks to satisfy the special character requirement:”fly_a_kite!”

Here's the full list:

1. password

2, 123456

3. 12345678

4. abc123

5. qwerty

6. monkey

7. letmein

8. dragon

9. 111111

10. baseball

11. iloveyou

12. trustno1

13. 1234567

14. sunshine

15. master

16. 123123

17. welcome

18. shadow

19. ashley

20. football

21. jesus

22. michael

23. ninja

24. mustang

25. password1