The number sequence "123456" has overtaken "password" as the most common
worst password among Internet users, an online security firm says.
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WASHINGTON,
The
number sequence "123456" has overtaken "password" as the most common
worst password among Internet users, an online security firm says.
Releasing
its annual Worst Passwords list, SplashData said it was the first time
"password" had lost its number-one position, changing places with its
numerical rival.
In third place was "12345678,"
unchanged from 2012, while "qwerty" and "abc123" came in fourth and
fifth -- and "iloveyou" climbed two spots to number nine.
Swinging
the results, SplashData said, was a major security breach involving
Adobe software that laid bare the widespread use of weak passwords among
users of such Adobe products as Photoshop.
"Seeing
passwords like 'adobe123' and 'photoshop' on this list (for the first
time) offers a good reminder not to base your password on the name of
the website or application you are accessing," said SplashData chief
executive Morgan Slain, whose company markets password management apps.
Like
other password experts, SplashData encouraged Internet users to opt for
"passphrases" -- a bunch of random words, numbers and characters, like
"smiles_like_skip?" -- that are easy to remember, but harder for online
scam artists to crack.
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