How many of you are guilty of this? Worst Passwords of 2019

[CatWoman]

Recently, Tech company SplashData released a list of 2019’s worst passwords. The reigning champion for 2019 is “123456”, which also held the top spot in 2018. Some new additions to the list include “dragon” at 23, “lovely” at 18, and “qwertyuiop” at 15. If your password isn’t on the list, congrats! But don’t consider yourself out of the woods just yet.

Here are the worst passwords of 2019:

123456 (rank unchanged from 2018)
123456789 (up 1)
qwerty (Up 6)
password (Down 2)
1234567 (Up 2)
12345678 (Down 2)
12345 (Down 2)
iloveyou (Up 2)
111111 (Down 3)
123123 (Up 7)
abc123 (Up 4)
qwerty123 (Up 13)
1q2w3e4r (New)
admin (Down 2)
qwertyuiop (New)
654321 (Up 3)
555555 (New)
lovely (New)
7777777 (New)
welcome (Down 7)
888888 (New)
princess (Down 11)
dragon (New)
password1 (Unchanged)
123qwe (New)

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1. Mandatory xkcd reference

[csziggy]

5. I've tried to use a strange phrase

But too many of the sites refuse to allow any words out of the dictionary! It is very irritating to use what is actually a more secure and easy to remember password and then have it rejected.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. My passwords aren't on this list BUT

I have to create passwords that sound like words, even if most of the words are mid-spelled or outright gibberish in English and the two Romance languages I can kinda-sorta read.

[klook]

3. I know only one password by heart:

the one I use to log in to my password vault app — and it’s a doozy that could only be solved by a brute-force attack trying millions of random combinations of varying lengths. The rest are bizarre, long passwords stored securely in the app and consisting of random combinations of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. And I use 2-factor authentication for everything financial or otherwise sensitive.

I used to work with a guy (an IT project manager, mind you) who had the 10 or so passwords he used over and over stuck to his monitor on Post-it notes.


Probably not all that uncommon.

[mnhtnbb]

4. I do not rely on an app to store my passwords.

I have a little notebook where they are all written. My son knows where the notebook is so when I depart this world, his job will be easier as executor of my will.