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