One of the tools hackers use to break into online accounts is a list of common passwords. Often called a dictionary attack, because the hacker can go through the list of words, just like they’d enter them from a dictionary.
That is why you shouldn’t use a standard word or word number combination (password, welcome), such as a sequence of numbers such as those next to one another on the keyboard (qwerty, 12345678), dates that are easy to find (birthdays, anniversaries), etc.
Every year Slash Data releases their list of the most common passwords found to be hacked. For 2018 the list is below. If you are using one of these, you definitely want to change your password.
Slash Data releases this list to try to help people find good passwords to use, and help people to stop using bad passwords that are easily hacked.
Use our password strength checking tool to help you determine how long it will take a hacker to break your new password.
- 123456 (Unchanged)
- Password (Unchanged)
- 12345678 (Up 1)
- qwerty (Up 2)
- 12345 (Down 2)
- 123456789 (New)
- letmein (New)
- 1234567 (Unchanged)
- football (Down 4)
- iloveyou (New)
- admin (Up 4)
- welcome (Unchanged)
- monkey (New)
- login (Down 3)
- abc123 (Down 1)
- starwars (New)
- 123123 (New)
- dragon (Up 1)
- passw0rd (Down 1)
- master (Up 1)
- hello (New)
- freedom (New)
- whatever (New)
- qazwsx (New)
- trustno1 (New)