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04/22/2019

‘123456’ Remains the World’s Most Breached Password

The State of Security

“123456” remains the most common password which digital criminals abuse to steal unsuspecting users’ sensitive information.

On 21 April, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) partnered with security researcher Troy Hunt to publish the top 100,000 passwords from Hunt’s Pwned Password service. Here are the top 20 passwords from this list:

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