SplashData has released an updated list of the top 25 passwords gleaned by hackers from stolen password files:
# Password Change from 2011 1 password Unchanged 2 123456 Unchanged 3 12345678 Unchanged 4 abc123 Up 1 5 qwerty Down 1 6 monkey Unchanged 7 letmein Up 1 8 dragon Up 2 9 111111 Up 3 10 baseball Up 1 11 iloveyou Up 2 12 trustno1 Down 3 13 1234567 Down 6 14 sunshine Up 1 15 master Down 1 16 123123 Up 4 17 welcome New 18 shadow Up 1 19 ashley Down 3 20 football Up 5 21 jesus New 22 michael Up 2 23 ninja New 24 mustang New 25 password1 New
If you recognize any password on this list … do yourself a favour and change it to something not on the list, preferably using more characters (including upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols). And don’t use the same password on multiple sites! SplashData sells a password keeper application that is quite useful (I’ve been using it for years now), and is available for multiple platforms.
