As Obi-Wan Kenobi would say, "These aren't the passwords you're looking for."
It doesn't take a Jedi mind trick to guess a bad password, just some savvy social engineering or a brute-force attack. So users who picked “starwars,” “solo” or “princess” for their credentials will be sorry to hear that they selected one of the 25 most common — and therefore worst — passwords of 2015, according to SplashData.
Aside from these references to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there were several other new entries to the annual list, including “1234567890,” “1qaz2wsx” (the two leftmost letter columns on a keyboard) and “qwertyuiop” (the top row of keyboard letters). In its blog,
SplashData notes that while these passwords are longer than previous list entries, they “are so simple as to make their extra length virtually worthless as a security measure”.
Unchanged from 2014, the most common password of 2015 was the dreadfully uninspired “123456”.
SplashData's list of worst passwords:
- 123456
- password
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 12345
- 123456789
- football
- 1234
- 1234567
- baseball
- welcome
- 12345667890
- abc123
- 111111
- 1qaz2wsx
- dragon
- master
- monkey
- letmein
- login
- princess
- qwertyuiop
- solo
- passw0rd
- starwars
-1.jpg&w=100&c=1&s=0)
.png&w=100&c=1&s=0)
