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27th May 2016

Here are the 10 most hacked passwords – people *actually* use these

123456 reasons to change your password.

Megan Roantree

It might be time to change your password, and chose wisely.

LinkedIn is more than just that site that bombards you with emails. It’s also that site that was hacked back in 2012.

Over 6 million LinkedIn accounts were hacked by cybercriminals and now a list of the passwords that were most commonly used has been revealed.

Embarrassingly, the most common password was an unimaginative ‘123456’ which featured 753,305 times.

This was followed by even less imagination as ‘linkedin’ and ‘password’ came in second and third.

Here is a list of the top 10 passwords that people had when they were hacked.

Rank   Password  Frequency
1  123456 753,305
2  linkedin 172,523
3  password 144,458
4  123456789  94,314
5  12345678 63,769
6  111111 57,210
7  1234567 49,652
8  sunshine 39,118
9  qwerty 37,538
10  654321 33,854

The list comes from a recovery of passwords from the data breach by Kore Logic.

If any of these look familiar it might be time to change your password to something a bit more creative.

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