Are people still using bad passwords?

It seems one of the world’s universal constants is that no matter how adamant the experts are or how many breaches there are, people will still want to use simple, easy passwords. Yes, you will be able to remember “password12345” every time, but so will the cyber criminals.

Cybernews and NordPass both decided to independently release data this week on the world’s most commonly used passwords for 2022. The former got its data from 56 million breached or leaked passwords discovered on darknet and clearnet hacker forums. NordPass’ team scoured the dark web for passwords and came out with 3 terabytes of info to compile it’s results.

Surprising absolutely no one, “password” and “123456” were in the top five of most commonly used passwords. “Admin,” “guest” and “root” also made it up there. According to Cybernews, 25 percent of all the passwords they looked at were only eight characters long, as compared to the recommended 12 or more. And 16 percent were only four characters long. You can view more of their results here.