Most Commonly Used “Crackable” Passwords On The Internet

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The biggest problem with creating internet accounts is setting strong passwords for them, many users are lazy enough to create guessable and crackable passwords for their accounts, with the most common ones being “123456”, “password”, “1234”, “testing” and so on.

These passwords are easily hackable, by using a simple brute force attack, we do have some suggestions for users to create strong passwords for your accounts.

In the meantime, you can checkout the 500 most commonly used passwords on the internet, if you are using any of them, its high time you change it to something less guessable :-) .

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  1. Alexandru
    March 22nd, 2009 at 8:03 pm #

    Saw a guy on irc selling WP logins
    Asked the guy for some tests
    Most of the passwords were admin:qwerty

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