How secure is your account?

Millions of people are hacked every year. These attacks can be for things as small as Domino's Pizza and Playstation Network accounts, to multi-million dollar Banking corporations and Cryptocurrency Wallets. Hackers often look for common passwords and use brute force methods to comb through thousands of accounts at once, hoping to find a loose end. Sometimes these things just happen out of chance, but we can do things such as choosing strong passwords to help try to prevent it.

Here are the most common passwords. Hopefully yours is not here... otherwise maybe you should change it!

There's nothing like an extremely safe and secure password like "1111111"...

Top Five	Bad Passwords	How Many?
^#1	123456	23.2m
^#2	123456789	7.7m
^#3	qwerty	3.8m
^#4	password	3.6m
^#5	1111111	3.1m

Top Honorable Mention Passwords:

These didn't quite make the top 5 but they're pretty noteworthy.

Top Five	Dark Horses
^#1	iloveyou
^#2	Monkey
^#3	Dragon
^#4	Shadow
^#5	abc123

Top 5 Musicians' Passwords:

"You got hacked son?" I hate it had to be you...

Top Five	Overused	How Many?
^#1	Blink182	285,706
^#2	50cent	191,153
^#3	Eminem	167,983
^#4	Metallica	140,841
^#5	Slipknot	140,833

Top 5 Human Name Passwords:

Young "Michael" dunking on fools, Iconic.

Top Five	Overused	How Many?
^#1	Ashley	432,276
^#2	Michael	425,291
^#3	Daniel	368,227
^#4	Jessica	324,125
^#5	Charlie	308,939

Top 5 fictional characters' Passwords:

The Man of Steel is a popular password pick, although it's not suprising since Superheroes are all the rage these days... (Thanos Did Nothing Wrong!)

Top Five	Overused	How Many?
^#1	Superman	333,139
^#2	Naruto	242,749
^#3	Tigger	237,290
^#4	Pokemon	226,116
^#5	Batman	203,116

I hope this helps you out! It sure helped me reconsider my choices. Much thanks to the UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) for relaying this information. As Bonus tip, you should activate Two Factor Authentication (2FA) if possible. This will add another layer of security. 2FA is more secure because it requires more information that just your password, it need "two factors" to log you in.