Are you using ‘123456’ as your password?... …Then you should be scared of listening this!

Are you using ‘123456’ as your password?...

…Then you should be scared of listening this!

 - R.Surya Prakash Rao

Yeah! It is true!! If you are using ‘123456’ as your password to log in to your account, you should be scared of listening this.

“Splash Data”, a company that makes password management and productivity apps, released the list of most commonly used passwords for the 3^rd consecutive year 2013. The data revealed that the passwords ‘123456’ and ‘password’ are the most commonly used passwords on the internet. Users of these passwords are most likely to be the victims of hacking. SplashData’s list of most commonly used passwords shows that many people, in spite of many hacking incidents being taken place at major sites, including Yahoo, LinkedIn, eHarmony, continue to put themselves in risk by using these passwords. It may be noted that these passwords are easily guessable and weak in nature. These are considered worst passwords.

The users of these passwords have to be aware of the risk of using these passwords and take simple steps to protect them selves, by changing password. They have to think of the terrific situation of their stolen identity because of a stolen password.

Here is the list of most commonly used and easily guessable and hacking prone passwords of 2012 and 2013.

Rank	2012	2013
1	password	123456
2	123456	password
3	12345678	12345678
4	abc123	qwerty
5	qwerty	abc123
6	monkey	123456789
7	letmein	111111
8	dragon	1234567
9	111111	iloveyou
10	baseball	adobe123
11	iloveyou	123123
12	trustno1	admin
13	1234567	1234567890
14	sunshine	letmein
15	master	photoshop
16	123123	1234
17	welcome	monkey
18	shadow	shadow
19	ashley	sunshine
20	football	12345
21	jesus	password1
22	michael	princess
23	ninja	azerty
24	mustang	trustno1
25	password1	000000