Spashdata released their list of most commonly used passwords recently. While I am not sure where all of this data is collected from I can say I see a number of these in the field all the time.
If you have a password on this list, it is a good idea to change it. If part of your password is on this list you have some soul searching to do. (I have parts of passwords on this list)
What sort of password should you use? Well… A strong one. A strong password as defined by the Default Microsoft Complexity requirements list as:
At least 8 characters, and at least 3 of the following categories.
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- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;”‘<>,.?/) Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.
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From: Password must meet complexity requirements
And Ideally no dictionary words as they make the password simpler to guess.
We also regularly use the password generator included in keypass.
KeePass Password Safe
Password Generator:
Generated Passwords:
Keypass can also store these for you.
Please take a look at the list below. Do you have any passwords on this list?
Please feel free to contact us, and ask any questions you might have.
List of the most common passwords
From: Wikipedia List of the Most Common Passwords
| Rank | 2011[4] | 2012[5] | 2013[6] | 2014[7] | 2015[8] | 2016[3] | 2017[9] | 2018[10] |
| 1 | password | password | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 |
| 2 | 123456 | 123456 | password | password | password | password | password | password |
| 3 | 12345678 | 12345678 | 12345678 | 12345 | 12345678 | 12345 | 12345678 | 123456789 |
| 4 | qwerty | abc123 | qwerty | 12345678 | qwerty | 12345678 | qwerty | 12345678 |
| 5 | abc123 | qwerty | abc123 | qwerty | 12345 | football | 12345 | 12345 |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | 123456789 | 123456789 | 123456789 | qwerty | 123456789 | 111111 |
| 7 | 1234567 | letmein | 111111 | 1234 | football | 1234567890 | letmein | 1234567 |
| 8 | letmein | dragon | 1234567 | baseball | 1234 | 1234567 | 1234567 | sunshine |
| 9 | trustno1 | 111111 | iloveyou | dragon | 1234567 | princess | football | qwerty |
| 10 | dragon | baseball | adobe123[a] | football | baseball | 1234 | iloveyou | iloveyou |
| 11 | baseball | iloveyou | 123123 | 1234567 | welcome | login | admin | princess |
| 12 | 111111 | trustno1 | admin | monkey | 1234567890 | welcome | welcome | admin |
| 13 | iloveyou | 1234567 | 1234567890 | letmein | abc123 | solo | monkey | welcome |
| 14 | master | sunshine | letmein | abc123 | 111111 | abc123 | login | 666666 |
| 15 | sunshine | master | photoshop[a] | 111111 | 1qaz2wsx | admin | abc123 | abc123 |
| 16 | ashley | 123123 | 1234 | mustang | dragon | 121212 | starwars | football |
| 17 | bailey | welcome | monkey | access | master | flower | 123123 | 123123 |
| 18 | passw0rd | shadow | shadow | shadow | monkey | passw0rd | dragon | monkey |
| 19 | shadow | ashley | sunshine | master | letmein | dragon | passw0rd | 654321 |
| 20 | 123123 | football | 12345 | michael | login | sunshine | master | !@#$%^&* |
| 21 | 654321 | jesus | password1 | superman | princess | master | hello | charlie |
| 22 | superman | michael | princess | 696969 | qwertyuiop | hottie | freedom | aa123456 |
| 23 | qazwsx | ninja | azerty | 123123 | solo | loveme | whatever | donald |
| 24 | michael | mustang | trustno1 | batman | passw0rd | zaq1zaq1 | qazwsx | password1 |
| 25 | Football | password1 | 000000 | trustno1 | starwars | password1 | trustno1 | qwerty123 |