What are the worst passwords? Website identifies the top 25

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Updated: 10/26/2012 1:16 pm
Syracuse (WSYR-TV/ABC News) – The website SplashData has released its top 25 worst passwords for 2012.

According to the site, the words were listed in order of how common and, therefore, obvious they are.

The usual suspects topped the list with “password” and “123456” at No. 1 and No. 2.

The top 10 worst passwords were:

1 password
2 123456
3 12345678
4 abc123
5 qwerty
6 monkey
7 letmein
8 dragon
9 111111
10 baseball

The new worst passwords on the list included “welcome” (No. 17), “jesus” (No. 21), “ninja” (No. 23), “mustang” (No. 24), and “password1” (No. 25).

Click here for a complete list
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