COMMON STOLEN PASSWORDS FOR THE YEAR 2013

Adobe major security breach in October affected upwards of 48 million users. A list of passwords from the Adobe breach had “123456” on top, followed by “123456789” and “password.” Adobe passwords included close to 100 million test accounts and inactive accounts.

Here's the full list of worst passwords from 2013:

1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. 123456789
7. 111111
8. 1234567
9. iloveyou
10. adobe123
11. 123123
12. admin
13. 1234567890
14. letmein
15. photoshop
16. 1234
17. monkey
18. shadow
19. sunshine
20. 12345
21. password1
22. princess
23. azerty
24. trustno1
25. 000000

Weaker passwords are more susceptible to brute-force attacks, where hackers attempt to access accounts through rapid guessing. And when encrypted passwords are stolen, weaker ones are the first to fall to increasingly sophisticated cracking software.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

·         A Password must be at-least 13 character long

·         Password must contain Upper and lower case characters, numbers and special characters e.g. 34^&agoy@#678

·         Avoid using common words as password e.g. Admin, Password