Worst Passwords of 2017: 123456 Tops Again

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For 2017, the world's most-hacked password is still "123456," followed by "Password."

Splashdata has released its annual ranking of the worst passwords of 2017, using data from more than 5 million leaked passwords. For 2017, the world's most-hacked password is still "123456," followed by "Password."

Between them, these two passwords have ruled the ranking sine 2011, and that's no surprise, since they're the easiest and most predictable passwords to hack.

Users can improve password security by finding a series of letters, numbers and symbols that's relatively complex, but which can be easily remembered. Try using the first letters of a phrase or a song title, for example. Finally, it's important never to use the same password twice and to make sure you change passwords regularly, once per quarter, for example.

Top 20 most-hacked passwords of 2017:

1. 123456 
2. password 
3. 12345678 
4. qwerty 
5. 12345 
6. 123456789 
7. letmein 
8. 1234567 
9. football 
10. iloveyou 
11. admin 
12. welcome 
13. monkey 
14. login 
15. abc123 
16. starwars 
17. 123123 
18. dragon 
19. passw0rd 
20. master