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21st Jan 2015

Think You’re Protecting Yourself? The Top 25 Passwords Of 2014 Are Here…

Might be time to change those passwords...

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If you think your security is top notch, it might be worth checking in with the top 25 passwords used in 2014.

Although some are more obvious than others (we’re looking at you top 5), there were some entries that made us question mankind (dragon, really?!)

SplashData compiles a list of the top 25 passwords each years from the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the year, and then assembles them in order of popularity.

So if you need a New Year’s resolution and find your security code in the list below, why not update all your social media accounts with a new numbers/letter sequence.

The top 25 passwords of 2014 are….

  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. 16.mustang
  17. access
  18. shadow
  19. master
  20. michael
  21. superman
  22. 696969
  23. 123123
  24. batman
  25. trustno1

Survey via SplashData