Every year, NordPass, the company that provides a password manager tool of the same name, publishes a list of the worst passwords in the world, and over the years, these passwords have not changed much, especially those belongs to the “top” category. Will 2021, when the world is more advanced in technology and the pandemic makes more people work from home via computers, help change this list?
The answer is no. Extremely bad passwords like “123456” and “qwerty” still top the list. Most of these, like “123456789” or “000000,” are just a simple numeric keypad that NordPass estimates is relatively easy to crack in about a second. Other popular choices like “password” and “abc123” are also easy to crack.
In addition to the passwords that everyone knows will appear on the list like “qwerty” or “abc123”, there are also some more strange, but equally bad passwords, such as “iloveyou”, “dragon” or “baseball”.
Here is a list of the 20 worst passwords of 2021, you can see the full 200 here:
1. 123456
2. 123456789
3. 12345
4. qwerty
5. password
6. 12345678
7. 111111
8. 123123
9. 1234567890
10. 1234567
11. qwerty123
12. 000000
13. 1q2w3e
14. aa12345678
15. abc123
16. password1
17. 1234
18. qwertyuiop
19. 123321
20. password123
NordPass CEO Jonas Karklys said: “Passwords are getting weaker and weaker and people are still not setting them properly. People have to understand that passwords are the gateway to our digital lives, and with more and more time spent online, it’s becoming increasingly important to pay attention to cybersecurity.”
Reference: Gizmodo
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