'123456' And 'Password' Remain The Most Popular Passwords of 2014

By Kamal Nayan - 20 Jan '15 12:43PM

Majority of the people on Internet continue to use '123456' and 'password' as their password, according to a new report.

SplashData compiles a list annually by collecting stolen data published by hackers throughout the year. It then analyzes the passwords and publishes the list.

For the last two years, '123456' has been the most popular password, followed by 'password.'

Here's the complete list of the 25 most popular passwords:

1. 123456 (Unchanged)

2. password (Unchanged)

3. 12345 (Up 17)

4. 12345678 (Down 1)

5. qwerty (Down 1)

6. 123456789 (Unchanged)

7. 1234 (Up 9)

8. baseball (New)

9. dragon (New)

10. football (New)

11. 1234567 (Down 4)

12. monkey (Up 5)

13. letmein (Up 1)

14. abc123 (Down 9)

15. 111111 (Down 8)

16.mustang (New)

17. access (New)

18. shadow (Unchanged)

19. master (New)

20. michael (New)

21. superman (New)

22. 696969 (New)

23. 123123 (Down 12)

24. batman (New)

25. trustno1 (Down 1)

The list simply reveals that the Internet security continues to be far less important to people and they prefer memorability over security.

Experts suggest using passwords of eight or more characters, in combination with lower - and upper-case letter, numbers and special characters. They also suggest to avoid words with personal information like birthday and favorite color. You can also pick word combinations that aren't related.

Companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google are now trying to make their systems more secure by allowing users to use two-factor authentication. Every time you try logging in, the service would send you one-time-password on your phone, which changes after each login attempt. This means hackers need the physical possession of your smartphone for hacking into your account, but this doesn't mean you can pick a weak passwords as listed above.