Quote:Weak passwords continue to be a problem on today's Internet. It seems that many users continue to pick weak passwords that were weak 20 years ago and continue to be the weakest of the weak. It is probably part convenience and part not-knowing-better that play a role here.

NordPass has released its six annual password report of the top 200 most common passwords. The company has analyzed a 2.5 terabyte database that it "extracted from various publicly available sources".

Note: It is likely that NordPass could not crack the entire list of passwords. With that said, if one of your passwords is found on such a list, you better change it immediately to something more secure.

The top 10 of all countries looks like this:

1. 123456
   
2. 123456789
   
3. 12345678
   
4. password
   
5. qwerty123
   
6. qwerty1
   
7. 111111
   
8. 12345
   
9. secret
   
10. 123123
    

You can check out individual lists of 44 countries or the same for corporate passwords, which NordPass lists in a separate list.

All of the non-corporate passwords that make up the top 10 are cracked in less than one second according to NordPass.  The other 190 passwords use a similar scheme and most are also cracked in less than a second. While numbers and qwerty dominate, there are also single words and even some passwords that are more complex on the list.

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