10 Worst Passwords On The Web 10 Worst Passwords On The Web

These days almost all the service’s you use on the web need you to login using a password for secure access. Thats why the email providers, online web storage providers, etc ask you to set a strong password for your respective accounts. And for the same reason anti-virus recommend users to set strong passwords with combinations of special characters and symbols.
In a recent survey, data security firm Imperva has analyzed the hacked passwords of the website RockYou and has revealed some shocking results. You will be surprised to know that “123456″ was the most frequently used password on the web !
Following image shows the passwords used the most :

Other important points of the study were :

• 42 % of the passwords used lowercase letters from “a to z”.
• 6 % of the passwords were a mix of alpha-numeric and other characters.
• Many of the top 20 passwords used were Spanish names.
• Nearly 2,000 of the passwords were only six characters long.
• The longest password was of 30 characters – lafaroleratropezoooooooooooooo (Wierd…).

The study clearly reveals that majority of users don’t lay emphasis on creation of strong passwords which is very very important considering that most of the online activity these days involve email, social media, blogs, etc where strong password is a necessity.
By the way, are you one of those who fall in the top 10 category as mentioned in the image ?