Taking care of your passwords is as important as ever to protect your online identity and private information.
With data breaches and cyber-attacks becoming more common, one of the key elements of a strong password is its uniqueness, but some passwords are anything but.
Here are the most commonly used passwords and phrases used in passwords by people around the world, collected by the Media Research team.
According to the report issued by the global data and business intelligence platform ‘Stista’ on the issue of password security, 10 passwords were most used worldwide during the last year.
of Stata According to the report According to these passwords details, about 4.525 million people used “123456” as their password.
After that, about 410,000 people typed “admin”, more than 1371,000 people typed “12345678”, more than 1213,000 people typed “123456789” and about 970,000 people typed ” Used ‘1234’ as password.
According to the report, more than 728 thousand people typed “12345”, more than 710 thousand people typed “password”, more than 528 thousand people typed “123”, about 320 thousand people typed “Aa123456”. . And about three lakh three thousand people used “1234567890” as password.
According to the recommendations of Microsoft, the most important American company in the world of technology, you should take care of these things for a secure password.
The password should not be a word that can be found in a dictionary, nor should it be the name of a person, role, product or organization. Password must be at least 12 characters long, 14 is better.
Your password must be a combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. Passwords should be easy for you to remember but not easy for someone else to guess.
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