In today’s technologically advanced society, mobile phones and the internet are essential for everyone! You need to have passwords on your phone, apps and payment passwords to prevent people from peeking at your phone or using your apps. Recently, password manager NordPass released a list of the 200 most commonly used passwords in 2021, and the number one most commonly used password is still “123456”! Let’s see if your password appears on the list too.
According to the Financial Express, password manager NordPass has released a list of the 200 most commonly used passwords in 2021, and as you can see from the list, the first and second ranked passwords are still the same as those published in 2020, with 123456 in first place, 123456789 in second, 12345 in third and qwerty in fourth. These are the easiest passwords to crack, officially.” It takes less than 1 second to crack”. Last year (2020) compared to this year (2021), password “123456” was used 2,543,285 times in 2020, while in 2021 it was used 103,170,552 times worldwide!
In addition, Nordpass has published a list detailing how many times passwords have been disclosed, used and how long it takes to crack them! Most people use simple, easy-to-remember passwords for convenience, but the easier they are to remember, the more likely they are to be cracked!
