Your password is “123456″, “password” or “starwars”? It is time to change – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

The Splashdata company that develops passwords management applications, announced on Tuesday, January 19, its annual list of the 25 “passwords” least 2015 secure.

This list was based on more than two million passwords used in North America and Western Europe during the year 2015.

As usual, the first two positions of the worst passwords of the year are “123456″ and “password”, respectively. According to Time magazine, these two options occupy the first places since Splashdata began compiling this list in 2010.

Completing the top 5 of the worst passwords are the variants “12345678″ “qwerty” and “12345″.

The novelty this year is the Star Wars theme of entry also under the passwords. The new movie of the saga, “The Force Wake” gave rise to “starwars”, “soil” and “princess”, which are also part of the list.

Passwords as “football”, “dragon “” abc123 “and” letmein “also form are included in this list of most common passwords.

Morgan Slain, CEO of SplashData explains that” as we see in the list, using terms related to sport or popular culture is also not a good idea. ” The company adds that if your password is included in this list, it is best to even change it.

Words -Pass less secure 2015:

1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. 12345
6. 123456789
7. football
8. 1234
9. 1234567
10. baseball
11. welcome
12. 1234567890
13. abc123
14. 111111
15. 1qaz2wsx
16. dragon
17. master
18. monkey
19. letmein
20. login
21. princess
22. qwertyuiop
23. soil
24. passw0rd
25. starwars