Passwords That You Should Avoid

When one was new to the Internet back in the days of a dial up connection, it was not too uncommon to have just a single e-mail account, and back then, remembering your password was a whole lot easier than today. Today, we have multiple accounts and passwords to remember, ranging from electronic banking to social networks, emails, and other kinds of online services. Using the same password across all services is also dangerous, making your mind all the more muddled. This has led to some very lazy password usage, and for the year 2014, some of the most commonly used passwords remained the same, although new additions have been made, which you can check out after the jump.

All of the top 25 passwords of 2014 are listed as follows, with their movement in the ranking being bracketed.

1. 123456 (Unchanged from 2013)
2. password (Unchanged)
3. 12345 (Up 17)
4. 12345678 (Down 1)
5. qwerty (Down 1)
6. 234567890 (Unchanged)
7. 1234 (Up 9)
8. baseball (New)
9. dragon (New)
10. football (New)
11. 1234567 (Down 4)
12. monkey (Up 5)
13. letmein (Up 1)
14. abc123 (Down 9)
15. 111111 (Down 8)
16. mustang (New)
17. access (New)
18. shadow (Unchanged)
19. master (New)
20. michael (New)
21. superman (New)
22. 696969 (New)
23. 123123 (Down 12)
24. batman (New)
25. trustno1 (Down 1)

Are you guilty of any of the passwords above? It is interesting to see both “superman” and “batman” make their way there, but where are the X-Men?

Edwin Kee
Categories: Computers
Tags: password