'password' is no longer the number one password...

[onehandle]

It's been dethroned by '123456.'

“123456” is finally getting some time in the spotlight as the world's worst password, after spending years in the shadow of “password.”

Security firm Splashdata, which every year compiles a list of the most common stolen passwords, found that “123456” moved into the number one slot in 2013. Previously, “password” had dominated the rankings.

The change in leadership is largely thanks to Adobe, whose major security breach in October affected upwards of 48 million users. A list of passwords from the Adobe breach had “123456” on top, followed by “123456789” and “password.” The magnitude of the breach had a major impact on Splashdata's results, explaining why “photoshop” and “adobe123” worked their way onto this year's list.

Fans of “password” could reasonably petition for an asterisk, however, given that the stolen Adobe passwords included close to 100 million test accounts and inactive accounts. Counting those passwords on the list is kind of like setting a home run record during batting practice. Don't be surprised if “password” regains the throne in 2014.

Here's the full list of worst passwords from 2013, according to Splashdata:

123456
password
12345678
qwerty
abc123
123456789
111111
1234567
iloveyou
adobe123
123123
admin
1234567890
letmein
photoshop
1234
monkey
shadow
sunshine
12345
password1
princess
azerty
trustno1
000000

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089244/the-25-worst-passwords-of-2013-password-gets-dethroned.html

[Initech]

1. 12345? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

[NuclearDem]

9. /thread

[louis-t]

10. Same thing happened to me.

I never got the code for my security system from previous owner. I was fooling with it one time and the alarm kept going off. With no way to shut it off, I started disconnecting wires, unplugging the unit, finally grabbing the speaker in the basement and ripping the wires apart which broke the circuit board. When I got upstairs, the light was still blinking on the infernal piece of....keypad, so I punched in 1-2-3-4 and it stopped.

[Lost_Count]

2. They all make sense except for azerty

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. some keyboards are laid out that way

instead of QWERTY
they are AZERTY


sP

[Lost_Count]

11. Interesting...

It's still a variant of QWERTY. I've got experience with the QWERTZ but not AZERTY.

QWERTY

By far the most widespread layout in use, and the only one that is not confined to a particular geographical area. Some varieties have keys like ⌅ Enter and ⇬ Caps Lock not translated to the language of the keyboard in question. In other varieties such keys have been translated, such as “Bloq mayús” for “Caps Lock”, in the Spanish keyboards. On Macintosh computers these keys are usually just represented by symbols without the word “Enter”, “Shift”, “Command”, “Option/Alt” or “Control”.

QWERTZ


The QWERTZ layout is fairly widely used in Germany and much of Central Europe. The main difference between it and QWERTY is that Y and Z are swapped, and some special characters such as brackets are replaced by diacritical characters.

AZERTY


The AZERTY layout is used in France, Belgium and some African countries. It differs from the QWERTY layout thus:
A and Q are swapped,
Z and W are swapped,
M is moved to the right of L (where colon/semicolon is on a US keyboard),
The digits 0 to 9 are on the same keys, but to be typed the shift key must be pressed. The unshifted positions are used for accented characters,
Caps lock is replaced by Shift lock, thus affecting non-letter keys as well. However, there is an ongoing evolution towards a Caps lock key instead of a Shift lock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#QWERTY-based_layouts_for_Latin_script

[ProdigalJunkMail]

13. wow... whodathunk there was a wiki entry on that...

weird. i guess you CAN find just about anything on wiki. the only reason i knew this is because i spent some time in Brussels a few years back and had to adjust to their keyboards

sP

[lpbk2713]

3. I knew abc123 had to be in the top five.

Huh? No John316?

[hollysmom]

4. I kind of like 1qa2ws3ed

for when they make you mix letters and numbers - and this is only for stupid things I don't care about like my dogs facebook account. I think I would know something is wrong if I start getting calls for her and it is not like a dog toy company.

[PCIntern]

8. Never thought of THAT one...

thanks!

[Vashta Nerada]

6. Haha.

People are stupid.

I do like the "trustno1" password. That was Fox Mulder's password on "The X-Files".

[tridim]

7. My DU password is the same password I used on BBS's in 1983.

Or maybe it's not.

[1000words]

12. No "bosco?"