25 Passwords that Hackers Expect You to Use

When it comes to securing online accounts the first line of defense is your password. There are many best practices that you should use when choosing and protecting your passwords but we will save that information for another post. The purpose of this post is to inform you of the 25 most frequently used passwords. If you use any of the passwords on this list we highly recommend changing them something more secure.

The following data was compiled by the gurus over at Splash Data. 

1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345
4. 12345678
5. qwerty
6. 123456789
7. 1234
8. baseball
9. dragon
10. football
11. 1234567
12. monkey
13. letmein
14. abc123
15. 111111
16. mustang
17. access
18. shadow
19. master
20. michael
21. superman
22. 696969
23. 123123
24. batman
25. trustno1

As an IT Consultant I've seen many of these passwords used frequently. If you read this list and realize that you currently use one or more of these passwords your account is not secure. 

Beyond the fact that they are so commonly used you'll also notice that very few of them use a combination of numbers and letters. We also highly recommend including a symbol as well as a mixture of capital and lowercase letters. These types of passwords are known as "High Complexity" and are much harder to crack.

We hope this information was useful to keeping your accounts safe and more secure. Thank you for reading!