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The passwords you use can be dangerous

  • Information Technology
  • 02 December, 2020 11:39:25

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News Desk: With the advent of information technology revolution in the world, the value of passwords has increased. Passwords are now used everywhere, from digital media to credit cards. As a result, everything from your confidential information to your bank balance is secure because of the password.

However, in most cases, many of us do not bother with the 'password'. We usually choose a password that is easy to remember. And in many cases the danger is hidden. We even sit down with passwords, which are easily broken by hackers.

Password Manager NordPass's report recently revealed 200 such passwords used in 2020. The first of which contains '123456', it has been used 23 million times. In the second place in terms of usage is the password '123456789'. In the third place is 'picture1'.

Incidentally, the password '123456' was also at the top in 2015. From this it is understood that nothing special has changed in the last 5 years. Let's take a look at the 20 most used passwords this year (2020). '123456', '123456789', 'picture1', 'password', '12345678', '111111', '123123', '12345', '1234567890', 'senha', '1234567', 'qwerty', 'abc123 ',' Million2 ',' 000000 ',' 1234 ',' iloveyou ',' aaron431 ',' password1 ', and' qqww1122 '.

The report also said that the ‘aaron431’ password has been used 90,000 times, the chocolate password 21,409 times and the pokemon password 36,000 times.

Didn't you use any of these most used passwords? But be careful then.

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