Cybersecurity researchers from Cybernews and password manager companyNordPassboth independently reported this week on data surrounding the most commonly-used passwords.
In their case, password sat in the number one spot for most-used password throughout the globe.
The number 2 most-used password for Brazil accounts is Brasil while in Germany, number 5 is hallo.
If you were under the assumption that people would have stopped using “123456" as their password in 2022, you would be sorely mistaken.Photo: Vitalii Vodolazskyi (Shutterstock)
Other than that, passwords were ranked simply by how often they were used in these listings.
Cybernews research also noted nearly 25% of the passwords they found only used eight characters.
Somewhere around 16% used just four.
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