A review of 19 billion passwords revolutions people are still bad at them

Your password probally stinks. At least that’s what a new study shows.

Researchers at cybernews Studid more than 19 billion leaked passwordsand of that just 6 percent was identified as unique, meaning they weret re-used or duplicated. To make matters Worse, the most common passwords are too too simple. Four percent of all passwords Studied by Cybernews – Meaning Roughly 727 Million Total Passwords – Included The Phrase “1234.” Phrasses like “password” and “admin” was also quite common, meaning following following on pre-set passwords.

“The ‘default password’ Problem remains one of the most persistent and dangerous patterns in Leaked Credential Datsets. Entries ‘Password’ (56m) (56m) and ‘Admin’ On Simple, Predictable Defaults, “Said Neringa MaciJuskaitė, Information Security Researcher at Cybernews, in a statement“Attackers, too, prioritize them, making these passwords among the least secure.”

The researchers also discovered lots of passwords that relied on names or, funnily enough, curse words. Sixteen Million Passwords Included The F-Bomb, for instance.

Studies have show time and against that we success at creating passwords. As Mashable covered at the end of last yearFor instance, a study from Nordpass Found the most common passwords are wildly simple.

Here was 2024’s top 10 most-used passwords globally, according to noordpass:

1. 123456

2. 123456789

3. 12345678

4. password

5. Qwerty123

6. Qwerty1

7. 111111

8. 12345

9. secret

10. 123123

So if you read this article and it seemed … a little too familyiar, perhaps it’s time to update your passwords. At the very least, don’t “123456.”