'Worst’ Passwords Revealed

The worst password of 2015 is “123456,” according to SplashData, which released the “Worst Passwords List on Tuesday. The firm has been ranking passwords since 2011 and bases its selection on more than two million leaked passwords. Many of the 2015 winners were also on the list in 2011 “demonstrating how people’s choices for passwords remain consistently risky,” said the firm. “We have seen an effort by many people to be more secure by adding characters to passwords, but if these...

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