Ranked: The World’s Top 100 Worst Passwords

During the first six months of 2019, more than 4 billion records were exposed by data breaches. That's a shocking statistic that's made even more so when you realize that passwords were included in droves. On December 4, a security researcher discovered a treasure trove of more than a billion plain-text passwords in an unsecured online database.


Now researchers at NordPass, a password manager from the people who are behind the NordVPN app, have set about ranking the most used and least secure passwords. Armed with a database of some 500 million passwords leaked as a result of data breaches in 2019, NordPass researchers were able to rank them in order of usage.


Password hygiene is a top security priority

The top three most commonly used passwords, notching up 6,348,704 appearances between them, are shockingly insecure, weak, and totally predictable. However, there are also many unexpected passwords on the list and that's the worrying thing. Well, worrying if you happen to be using any of them, that is. If a password you use is on the list, then your security posture has just been weakened. Hackers can brute-force their way into accounts by throwing known common passwords, as well as dictionary words, at them. If you use the same password across multiple sites and services, then your security posture is so bad you urgently need to see a cyber-chiropractor. As I reported on December 6, Microsoft analyzed a database of 3 billion leaked credentials from security breaches and found that more than 44 million Microsoft accounts were using passwords that had already been compromised elsewhere. Password reuse is a sure-fire way to get yourself, your accounts and your data into trouble, especially if you are using one of the world's worst passwords.

Ranked: the world's 100 worst passwords

You can find the full listing of the world's worst passwords, together with usage statistics, in the NordPass report. Here are just the top 100 worst passwords. If any of them look at all familiar, go and change the respective account login credentials immediately.
  1. 12345
  2. 123456
  3. 123456789
  4. test1
  5. password
  6. 12345678
  7. zinch
  8. g_czechout
  9. asdf
  10. qwerty
  11. 1234567890
  12. 1234567
  13. Aa123456.
  14. iloveyou
  15. 1234
  16. abc123
  17. 111111
  18. 123123
  19. dubsmash
  20. test
  21. princess
  22. qwertyuiop
  23. sunshine
  24. BvtTest123
  25. 11111
  26. ashley
  27. 00000
  28. 000000
  29. password1
  30. monkey
  31. livetest
  32. 55555
  33. soccer
  34. charlie
  35. asdfghjkl
  36. 654321
  37. family
  38. michael
  39. 123321
  40. football
  41. baseball
  42. q1w2e3r4t5y6
  43. nicole
  44. jessica
  45. purple
  46. shadow
  47. hannah
  48. chocolate
  49. michelle
  50. daniel
  51. maggie
  52. qwerty123
  53. hello
  54. 112233
  55. jordan
  56. tigger
  57. 666666
  58. 987654321
  59. superman
  60. 12345678910
  61. summer
  62. 1q2w3e4r5t
  63. fitness
  64. bailey
  65. zxcvbnm
  66. fuckyou
  67. 121212
  68. buster
  69. butterfly
  70. dragon
  71. jennifer
  72. amanda
  73. justin
  74. cookie
  75. basketball
  76. shopping
  77. pepper
  78. joshua
  79. hunter
  80. ginger
  81. matthew
  82. abcd1234
  83. taylor
  84. samantha
  85. whatever
  86. andrew
  87. 1qaz2wsx3edc
  88. thomas
  89. jasmine
  90. animoto
  91. madison
  92. 0987654321
  93. 54321
  94. flower
  95. Password
  96. maria
  97. babygirl
  98. lovely
  99. sophie
  100. Chegg123
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