As a collective, we humans seem to be quite unimaginative and well, very lazy. Just take a look at how many people’s passwords are so dumb and easy to guess. Here are the 25 worst (a.k.a. most popular) passwords of 2011.
It’s pretty similar to results from previous years but that shouldn’t really come as a surprise, right? It’s not like the computer, keyboard, password and human brain were invented yesterday. We’re not that much different year to year. The rankings were created by SplashData who gathered the data from the millions of stolen passwords posted online by hackers in 2011.
1. password
2. 123456
3.12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football
I’m sort of surprised asdf (or any combination of that) didn’t crack the top 25. I swear that was my go-to password as a teen. [Mashable]
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DarthDVD
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 6:44 AMdam… my password didnt make it into the top 25…. oh well maybe next year ;).
Icurafu
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 7:43 AMThis is the same list that a number of sites were reporting yesterday. In reality, this list if very old. For example, trustno1 is from x-files, which hasn’t been popular for many years.
Sevrin
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 7:51 AMYeah,
I saw this same list on the Sydney Morning Herald site last week!
Not very tech savvy if the SMH is beating you to the punch!
jasonalex
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:57 AMIt’s a list of passwords, I don’t think they were claiming to be ‘tech-savvy’.
nicky
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:14 PMso the dumbest chicks on the planet are named “Ashley”?
Dan
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:26 PMI dunno mine is “qwerty” it’s easy to remember and obviously a good choice seeing how popular it is :) number 4.. but I guess I could change it to password but that’s kind of boring. Thanks for the tip on alternatives for me though giz
Snacuum
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:23 PM“bailey”
How many poor children must be named this…