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The top passwords of 2014 are here and they will make you feel very clever

Published 07:57 6 Aug 2015 BST

Alan Loughnane
The top passwords of 2014 are here and they will make you feel very clever

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'123456'? come on people, you can think of a better one than that surely...

Setting passwords is all important, it needs to be something you can easily remember in case you've had a rough night out the night before, but something difficult to guess. Some people take the first part of that advice and completely disregard the second part and that's how many of these terrible passwords were born. 200-26 We still have our original password from our first gmail account and we still use it for everything, it's [our name]123, shush, don't tell anyone... Splashdata have compiled a list of all the stolen passwords from last year and ranked them in order of popularity. 1. 123456 2. password 3. 12345 4. 12345678 5. qwerty 6. 123456789 7. 1234 8. baseball 9. dragon 10. football 11. 1234567 12. monkey 13. letmein 14. abc123 15. 111111 16. mustang 17. access 18. shadow 19. master 20. michael 21. superman 22. 696969 23. 123123 24. batman 25. trustno1 Our particular favourite is number nine, imagine having to give that password to someone you trusted to let them log in, the shame of it... You can also check out the most common business passwords here. Hat-tip to Mashable.
The top passwords of 2014 are here and they will make you feel very clever