Lists of the most common passwords
These lists of the most common passwords were created from password lists that became known through data leaks . Such passwords should not be used.
Lists
SplashData
The Worst Passwords List is a list of the most common passwords each year. It has been published by the security company SplashData since 2011. The sources for this are millions of passwords from data leaks, mainly from North America and Europe. In 2016, the 25 most common passwords made up over 10% of the passwords examined. The most common password, "123456", made up 4% of the entries. The passwords "adobe123" and "photoshop" are prominently represented in 2013 because this year there was a particularly large data leak with the data of over 48 million users of Adobe software.
rank | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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1 | password | password | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 | 123456 |
2 | 123456 | 123456 | password | password | password | password | password | password | 123456789 |
3 | 12345678 | 12345678 | 12345678 | 12345 | 12345678 | 12345 | 12345678 | 123456789 | qwerty |
4th | qwerty | abc123 | qwerty | 12345678 | qwerty | 12345678 | qwerty | 12345678 | password |
5 | abc123 | qwerty | abc123 | qwerty | 12345 | football | 12345 | 12345 | 1234567 |
6th | monkey | monkey | 123456789 | 123456789 | 123456789 | qwerty | 123456789 | 111111 | 12345678 |
7th | 1234567 | let my | 111111 | 1234 | football | 1234567890 | let my | 1234567 | 12345 |
8th | let my | dragon | 1234567 | baseball | 1234 | 1234567 | 1234567 | sunshine | Ich liebe dich |
9 | trustno1 | 111111 | Ich liebe dich | dragon | 1234567 | princess | football | qwerty | 111111 |
10 | dragon | baseball | adobe123 | football | baseball | 1234 | Ich liebe dich | Ich liebe dich | 123123 |
11 | baseball | Ich liebe dich | 123123 | 1234567 | welcome | Log in | admin | princess | abc123 |
12 | 111111 | trustno1 | admin | monkey | 1234567890 | welcome | welcome | admin | qwerty123 |
13 | Ich liebe dich | 1234567 | 1234567890 | let my | abc123 | solo | monkey | welcome | 1q2w3e4r |
14th | master | sunshine | let my | abc123 | 111111 | abc123 | Log in | 666666 | admin |
15th | sunshine | master | photoshop | 111111 | 1qaz2wsx | admin | abc123 | abc123 | qwertyuiop |
16 | ashley | 123123 | 1234 | mustang | dragon | 121212 | Starwars | football | 654321 |
17th | bailey | welcome | monkey | access | master | flower | 123123 | 123123 | 555555 |
18th | passw0rd | shadow | shadow | shadow | monkey | passw0rd | dragon | monkey | lovely |
19th | shadow | ashley | sunshine | master | let my | dragon | passw0rd | 654321 | 7777777 |
20th | 123123 | football | 12345 | Michael | Log in | sunshine | master | ! @ # $% ^ & * | welcome |
21st | 654321 | Jesus | password1 | superman | princess | master | Hello | charlie | 888888 |
22nd | superman | Michael | princess | 696969 | qwertyuiop | hottie | freedom | aa123456 | princess |
23 | qazwsx | ninja | azerty | 123123 | solo | loveme | whatever | donald | dragon |
24 | Michael | mustang | trustno1 | batman | passw0rd | zaq1zaq1 | qazwsx | password1 | password1 |
25th | football | password1 | 000000 | trustno1 | Starwars | password1 | trustno1 | qwerty123 | 123qwe |
Keeper
In 2016, the manufacturers of the password management software Keeper also compiled a list of the most common passwords out of 25 million passwords that became known through data leaks this year.
rank | 2016 |
---|---|
1 | 123456 |
2 | 12345679 |
3 | qwerty |
4th | 12345678 |
5 | 111111 |
6th | 1234567890 |
7th | 1234567 |
8th | password |
9 | 123123 |
10 | 987654321 |
11 | qwertyuiop |
12 | mynoob |
13 | 123321 |
14th | 666666 |
15th | 18atcskd2w |
16 | 7777777 |
17th | 1q2w3e4r |
18th | 654321 |
19th | 555555 |
20th | 3rjs1la7qe |
21st | |
22nd | 1q2w3e4r5t |
23 | 123qwe |
24 | zxcvbnm |
25th | 1q2w3e |
National Cyber Security Center
The UK's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) compiled its list of the 20 most common passwords in 2019, based on 100 million passwords that became known through data leaks that year.
rank | 2019 |
---|---|
1 | 123456 |
2 | 123456789 |
3 | qwerty |
4th | password |
5 | 1111111 |
6th | 12345678 |
7th | abc123 |
8th | 1234567 |
9 | password1 |
10 | 12345 |
11 | 1234567890 |
12 | 123123 |
13 | 000000 |
14th | Ich liebe dich |
15th | 1234 |
16 | 1q2w3e4r5t |
17th | Qwertyuiop |
18th | 123 |
19th | Monkey |
20th | Dragon |
Individual evidence
- ^ Titcomb, James: Do you have one of the most common passwords? They're ridiculously easy to guess . In: The Telegraph . March 23, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
- ^ Brian Mastroianni: These were the 25 worst passwords of 2015 . In: CBS News . 20th January 2016.
- ↑ a b Raisa Bruner: The 25 Worst Passwords You Should Never Use . In: TIME . 23rd January 2017.
- ↑ a b Jared Newman: The 25 worst passwords of 2013: 'password' gets dethroned . In: PC World . 20th January 2014.
- ↑ Heather Kelly: '123456' tops list of worst passwords . In: CNN . 22th January 2014.
- ↑ Erica Ho: The 25 Most Popular (and Worst) Passwords of 2011 . In: TIME . November 22, 2011.
- ↑ Olivia B. Waxman: The 25 worst passwords of 2012 . In: CNN . October 25, 2012.
- ↑ Olivia Waxman: These Are The 25 Worst Passwords of 2014 . In: TIME . 20th January 2015.
- ↑ Lulu Chang: Wookie mistake: 'starwars' is now one of the world's 25 worst passwords . In: Digital Trends . 19th January 2016.
- ↑ Kirsten Korosec: The 25 Most Common Passwords of 2017 Include 'Star Wars' . In: FORTUNE . 19th December 2017.
- ↑ Melanie Ehrenkranz: The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2018 Will Make You Feel Like a Security Genius . In: Gizmodo . December 13, 2018.
- ↑ Catie Keck: It's Time to Nervously Mock the 50 Worst Passwords of the Year . In: Gizmodo . 18th December 2019.
- ↑ a b Cara McGoogan: The world's most common passwords revealed: Are you using them? . In: The Daily Telegraph . January 16, 2017.
- ↑ a b Subham Kapiswe: NCSC Reveals List Of World's Most Hacked Passwords . In: Technotification . April 23, 2019. Retrieved April 24, 2019.