According to Gadgetsnow, password management service Nord Pass Pass has announced an annual list of the 200 most used passwords in 2021. This list includes the most used passwords of the year and were used in most cases of database attacks.
The company has analyzed 50 countries, with 43 of the 50 countries having the most used password, 12.456. Notably, the number of times it was used increased from 25,43,285 in 2020 to 103,170,552 in 2021. In India, the most common password is the word "password".
123456
This password was used the most in the world last year, up to 103,170,552 times. With a simple and easy-to-find password like this, criminals can guess and get the user information of the account owner in just a few seconds.
123456789
Right after 12.456, 12.456789 is the second most used password in the world, with 46,027,530 uses in 2021.
12345
In 3rd place was 123.45 with 32,955,431 uses. A simple password like this can be unlocked in less than 1 second without too many IT skills.
Q Q Qwerty
The first 5 letters of the computer keyboard were used as a password up to 22,317,280 times in 2021. This is also one of the 10 most predictable and lost passwords, according to Nord Pass.
Passworld
Passworld also means password is one of the most popular passwords in India in the past year with 20,958,297 uses.
12345678
This is a wifi password commonly used in Vietnam as well as the world. In 2021, it was used 14,745,771 times from all over the world.
111111
With 13,354,149 uses, the number 1 row of 6 also entered the top 10 predictable passwords of the year. With this password, criminals do not even need high computer skills to steal data.
123123
123,23 is one of the simplest passwords ever used. However, its easy-to-remember nature makes it in the top 10 unsafe because it has been used up to 10,244,398 times and can be unlocked in less than 1 second.
1234567890
This 10-digit row could not escape the list of predictable and most used passwords of the year. 12.4567890 has been used 9,646,621 times in the past year.
1234567
The top 10 position in the list is still an easy-to-remember number. This password has been used 9,396,813 times in the past year and has caused many people to suffer from cyber attacks because the password is too easy to predict.
