Here Is The List Of Most Commonly Used passwords! Is Yours On The List?
Over the years, internet culture has emerged as one of the most accepted and adopted cultures of the 21st century. More than half of the population is on every second social media site using the internet for scrolling, texting, making transactions, and treating it as an important part of their everyday life. But we knowingly or unknowingly give out a lot of personal information while using these sites and with this increased internet culture, the possibilities of breaches are getting bigger all the time. Though we use passwords to keep our information private but we all have witnessed cases of cybercrime around us.
As per digital security firm Gemalto, Data breach incidences in India were the second-highest globally in 2018, the NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) reported losses of nearly 13 million INR (USD 195,000 in 2016) in fraudulent transactions, Last year country’s one of the most popular groceries selling app BigBasket too suffered a data breach, leading to the leak of all the sensitive details of their users. But the major question is ‘how as a layman we can stop or minimize these attacks?’
We can keep our cyber information secure by using a strong password they should also be unique across each of your different accounts. We should be aware of the list published by the National Cyber Security Centre. Agencies like these publish the most commonly used passwords and the sole reason for this is to protect internet users and help them create strong passwords that would eventually help protect sensitive data. The problem with simple passwords is that they are easy to guess. Users tend to use an easy password to avoid all that hassle of remembering it.
People who use their names, interest, favorite sports team, singer, or 12345 as their passwords are the most vulnerable to become a hacker’s target since it’s pretty easy to discover your personal interests online. According to a research titled “The digital lives of millennials and gen Z”, more than 65% of the millennials and generation Z communicates with each other through social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Linked In, Tinder, and many more, so by your posts, tweets, comments, personal information you put on social media sites anyone could guess your password. Remembering multiple passwords is not easy but we can always write them down or use a password manager such as LastPass and always enable two-factor authentication.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has also published a separate analysis of the 100,000 most commonly re-occurring passwords that have been accessed by third parties in global cyber breaches. Some of them are 123456, ashley, superman, password, qwerty, liverpool, 50cent, metallica, 1111111. Web security expert Troy Hunt made a remark on this topic he said, “Making good password choices is the single biggest control consumers have over their own personal security posture.”