See the Top 25 Worst Passwords of 2017

As the year runs to an end, the worst passwords of 2017 have been published – so that you can change your passwords if they are among. You should create strong passwords and, if you don’t mind the extra work, you should add two-factor authentication.

Topping the list of the worst passwords of 2017 is 123456 – and, like seriously, this is too simple; why would someone take numbers in consecutive series as a password. If your password is 123456, sincerely, you deserve a cane – and I don’t mind coming to beat you on your bed.

At the second place of the worst passwords of 2017 is password. Imagine, some people are using the word “password” itself as their password. This is ridiculous. Other worst passwords include names of sports, car models, movies, and animals.

Funny enough, some people are even using the phrase “iloveyou” as their password – they must really love their password.

Here is the list of the top 25 worst passwords of 2017, as compiled by SplashData, a company that develops password management utilities.

1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. 12345
6. 123456789
7. letmein
8. 1234567
9. football
10. iloveyou
11. admin
12. welcome
13. monkey
14. login
15. abc123
16. starwars
17. 123123
18. Dragon
19. passw0rd
20. master
21. hello
22. freedom
23. whatever
24. qazwsx
25. trustno1

All these kinds of passwords are too simple; even the most inexperienced of hackers using the most primitive brutal force script could guess the passwords right.

I know creating and memorising strong passwords aren’t easy, but it isn’t a rocket – or drone – science; in my post on how to create strong a password and remember it, I suggested patterns you can use to create strong passwords and never forget them.

In as much as you tell nobody your password patterns, you can keep generating strong passwords for every website you registered on and never forget them. Beta still, you can use the free version of password management tools; they are fantastic and sync across devices.

In the meantime, if your passwords are among the above-listed 25, quickly go and change them, I am begging you, as hackers would start running them against accounts, now that the passwords are in the public.