Are you using one of the worst passwords of 2012?
by John Fisher
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posted Oct 24 2012 10:10AM
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Is your Facebook password by any chance . . .just the word “password”? I hate to break it to you, but that is a lame password. The lamest, in fact – the new list is out of the worst passwords of 2012. And number one is the word PASSWORD. Number 2 is 123456, followed by the much more secure 12345678. Also in the top 10: monkey, letmein, and baseball. The point here is that we need to come up with more complex passwords, and we should have different passwords for different websites and devices. In case you’d like to try to hack your spouse’s email, here's the whole list for 2012, couresty of SplashData::
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1. password (unchanged)
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2. 123456 (unchanged)
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3. 12345678 (unchanged)
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4. abc123 (up 1)
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5. qwerty (down 1)
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6. monkey (unchanged)
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7. letmein (up 1)
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8. dragon (up 2)
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9. 111111 (up 3)
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10. baseball (up 1)
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11. iloveyou (up 2)
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12. trustno1 (down 3)
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13. 1234567 (down 6)
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14. sunshine (up 1)
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15. master (down 1)
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16. 123123 (up 4)
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17. welcome (new)
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18. shadow (up 1)
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19. ashley (down 3)
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20. football (up 5)
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21. jesus (new)
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22. michael (up 2)
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23. ninja (new)
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24. mustang (new)
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25. password1 (new)
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