Worst password? No longer ‘password’

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EASY ACCESS. Are passwords getting easier to guess?

The worst password among Internet users is no longer “password” but the number sequence “123456.” This is according to online security firm SplashData, which encourages Internet users to use “passphrases,” a combination of random words, numbers and characters that are easy to remember but harder to scam artists to crack. Ranking No. 3 in its list of worst passwords was “12345678,” followed by “qwerty” and “abc123” at Nos. 4 and 5. Splashdata also markets password management applications.


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