Just about everyone knows at this point that its important to use a strong password.
But that hasnt stopped a lot of people from using the dumbest passwords imaginable.
The latest batch of lists include not just personal credentials like in previous years, but also corporate passwords.
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For instance, the most common bad password in Canada is qwerty123, while in the U.S. its secret.
But overall across the 44 countries analyzed, the most common password is 123456. it’s possible for you to findall the lists at NordPass.
But Google searches havent given us any obvious answers for why this might be a common password.
The passwords broken out for being just from corporate sources also reveal a couple of odd choices.
In the U.S. the password aaron431 is ranked as the fifth most popular.
But we have to admit were not sure why that could be.
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