If you happen, rightly, to be worried about the security of your shit, a good first step is to lock it down with a unique password. Your birthday or your partner’s name or something like that probably won’t cut it, and in case you ever need to tell someone in an emergency situation, you should avoid truebelieber92 or anything too incriminating.
Whichever way you choose to go, though, there are some passwords you should definitely not go near. Time Magazine recently reached out to Splash Data to come up with a list of the absolute worst, least secure passwords you could be using, based on a study of data files from last year, containing millions of leaked passwords.
There are a few obvious ones on the list, but also a few surprises. To wit, if your password is a series of sequential numbers from 1 to 6, or the actual word ‘password’, you should probably know better, but in case you thought you were being clever or sneaky with ‘trustno1’, that’s actually a pretty common one too. Here is the list in full:
1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345
4. 12345678
5. qwerty
6. 123456789
7. 1234
8. baseball
9. dragon
10. football
11. 1234567
12. monkey
13. letmein
14. abc123
15. 111111
16. mustang
17. access
18. shadow
19. master
20. michael
21. superman
22. 696969
23. 123123
24. batman
25. trustno1
Lol @ 696969. We’ll wait right here while you change those.
h/t Uproxx
