One of the easiest way for cyber criminals to hack into internet users’ accounts is to crack their
passwords. Quite often people — out of ignorance or laziness — tend to keep passwords that are easy to guess.







One of the easiest way for cyber criminals to hack into internet users’ accounts is to crack their
passwords. Quite often people — out of ignorance or laziness — tend to keep passwords that are easy to guess. However, what they forget is that these passwords are also easy to hack and crack.  Top 30 worst passwords in 2020 According to a recent research by cyber security firm ImmuniWeb, out of 21 million “credentials belonging to Fortune 500 companies, about 16 million were compromised” during the last one year. The research firm further found that just 4.9 million out the 21 million passwords were unique. In other words, a vast chunk of them were easy to hack. Of these millions of passwords, there are 32 that are most-commonly used. These 32 passwords appear in almost all hacker lists across industries. So, here are these 32 passwords that you should stop using right now if you want to protect your account from hackers. Top 30 worst passwords in 2019

The top 30 most common passwords were:

• 0000000

• 111111

• 112233

• 123456

• 12345678

• 123456789

• 1qaz2wsx

• 3154061

• 456a33

• 3366936455

• 798_234

• aaaaaa

• abc13

• career121

• comedy

• cheer

• cheezy

• exigent

• old123ma

• opensesame

• pass

• passer
• qwerty
• passwOrd 
• password1

• snowman
• !qaz1qaz
• soccer1
• welcome

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• iloveyou***

"iloveyou" just missed out on the top 10, while "monkey" and "dragon" made surprise appearances in the top 20. Plenty of users also used passwords as an opportunity to employ a colorful array of swear words.



Popular brand names were also chosen, such as cocacola, snickers, mercedes, skittles, mustang, and playboy. MySpace and LinkedIn were also common choices, alarmingly, to secure accounts on those sites.

Bands and movie references were often used, with Spiderman, superman, starwars, and pokemon all common choices as were expressions of frustration – a**hole, bull****, and f***you were often chosen.

What Makes a Good Password?

A good password will not be in the dictionary, will not use sequential numbers or be created by walking fingers along a keyboard. Brand names and locations should also be avoided. Passwords should be a minimum of 8 characters and should be unique – never used before by the user, and never reused on a different platform.

Passwords should include at least one capital letter, lowercase letter, symbol and number. If all lowercase letters are used, each letter in the password could be one of 26 letters. Add in capitals and the possible options double to 52. There are 10 digits, increasing the options to 62, and let’s say 32 special characters, bringing the total up to 94 options. With so many options and possible combinations, randomly generated passwords are particularly difficult to guess. However, randomly generated passwords are also particularly difficult to remember.

Recently, that problem has been recognized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which has revised its advice on passwords (See special publication 800-63B).

While the use of random strings of characters and symbols makes passwords particularly difficult to guess and more resilient to hackers’ brute force password guessing tactics, end users have trouble remembering their passwords and that leads to particularly risky behaviors such as writing the password down or storing it in a browser.