Annual "Worst Passwords" revealed - the winner is 123456 Software firm SplashData has released the 2013 edition of its annual "Worst Passwords" list, and for the first time, "password" has been displaced from the top spot. The dubious distinction now goes to "123456", which had been in second place for the past two years. After a year of high-profile security breaches, including a massive leak of Adobe user account details, it is evident that a huge number of users continue to put themselves at risk online by choosing easy-to-remember but highly unsecure passwords. SplashData's list was compiled after combing through millions of passwords leaked or posted online following security breaches in 2013. Many of the top 25 weak passwords are as short as four characters, use simple sequences of only numbers or characters, or are simply the names of the websites or services that the user has signed up for. "qwerty" takes the number four ...
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