The worst passwords in the world
In the worst passwords list, you might find it horrifying that many people even use qwerty or 123456, which is quite funny. Others use their own name or the same email username, which gives hackers an upper hand.
Here’s a list of the world’s most hackable passwords:
- 123456 (23.2 million users)
- 123456789 (7.7 million users)
- qwerty (3.8 million users)
- password (3.6 million users)
- 1111111 (3.1 million users)
- 12345678 (2.9 million users)
- abc123 (2.8 million users)
- 1234567 (2.5 million users)
- password1 (2.4 million users)
- 12345 (2.3 million users)
- 1234567890 (2.2 million users)
- 123123 (2.2 million users)
- 000000 (1.9 million users)
- Iloveyou (1.6 million users)
- 1234 (1.3 million users)
- 1q2w3e4r5t (1.2 million users)
- Qwertyuiop (1.1 million users)
- 123 (1.02 million users)
- Monkey (980, 209 users)
- Dragon (968,625 users)
Top 5 names used as passwords
- ashley (432,276 users)
- michael (425,291 users)
- daniel (368,227 users)
- jessica (324,125 users)
- charlie (308,939 users)
- princess
- sunshine
Top 5 football teams passwords
- liverpool (280,723 users)
- chelsea (216,677 users)
- arsenal (179,095 users)
- manutd (59,440 users)
- everton (46,619 users)
Top 5 musicians’ names as passwords
- blink182 (285,706 users)
- 50cent (191,153 users)
- eminem (167,983 users)
- metallica (140,841 users)
- slipknot (140,833 users)
- Top five fictional characters
- superman (333,139 users)
- naruto (242,749 users)
- tigger (237,290 users)
- pokemon (226,947 users)
- batman (203,116 users)
Most common passwords in Germany
Germans show a massive preference for numeric passwords that start with 123. In fact, these numerical passwords form half of the top 20 most used passwords in Deutschland.
- 123456789
- 12345678
- 12345
- 1234
- 123
- 1234567
- 1234567890
- 1q2w3e4r
- sommer
- schalke04
- hallo123
- hallo
- passwort
- lol123
- qwertz
- ficken
- arschloch
- killer
- dennis
Most commonly used passwords in France
The French version of qwerty is azerty, and it’s the topmost used password in the country. Then, Francais phrases such as bonjour, jetaime, maraseille, chocolat,discouragingthat, and soleil come in to share the fame.
Lately, there’s been increased attention towards numerical patterns as passwords. However, they only form about three numerical passwords among the top twenty.
A good explanation is that French keyboards need you to press Shift+number to get the number you want, discouraging many users from using numerical patterns in their passwords.
- azerty
- loulou
- doudou
- badoo
- soleil
- 123456789
- nicolas
- motdepasse
- chocolat
- camille
- marseille
- 123456
- 010203
- azertyuiop
- chouchou
- bonjour
- jetaime
- alexandre
- coucou
- caramel
Most popular passwords list in Russia
Russia is quite a different country. When they are not using their “vernacular” characters, they concentrate on numerical patterns on the keyboard.
And, as a fun fact, Russian users are the least likely in the world to use any meaningful phrases as passwords.
- qwerty
- qwe123
- 111111
- qweqwe
- 1q2w3e4r
- 1234567890
- 7777777
- 1q2w3e
- 1q2w3e4r5t
- 123123
- 123456
- qwertyuiop
- 123456789
- klaster
- 1qaz2wsx
- qazwsx
- 1234567
- 123321
- 123qwe
- zxcvbnm
Italy’s easy passwords list
Italians love their football clubs to the extent they use their names as passwords. Then, their romantic names also feature significantly in the list of the most popular passwords in Italy:
- 123456
- juventus
- 12345678
- francesca
- giuseppe
- francesco
- qwertyuiop
- stellina
- federica
- lorenzo
- 123456789
- password
- ciaociao
- alessandro
- martina
- valentina
- antonio
- federico
- giovanni
- asdasd
Most common passwords in the USA
Americans are more diverse than other populations when it comes to passwords; they use common words, sports, and numeric and keyboard patterns. A quarter of the top USA passwords contain an exact match of “qwerty” and its variations.
Below you go with the most common passwords in USA:
- password
- 123456789
- 1234567
- 12345
- 1234
- qwertyuiop
- 1qaz2wsx
- iloveyou
- qwerty
- letmein
- 123456
- 12345678
- password1
- 1234567890
- qwerty123
- 1q2w3e4r
- superman
- qwerty1
- 123456a
- football
Top 20 most popular passwords in Spain
Spanish people seem to love their La Liga teams and numbers. In fact, more than 70% of passwords used in Spain have numerical patterns. Then, two of the five top phrases are popular football clubs.
- 123456789
- 12345678
- 1234567890
- 1234567
- 123456a
- 654321
- 123123
- 555555
- alejandro
- a123456
- 123456
- 12345
- 111111
- 000000
- barcelona
- 666666
- 159159
- realmadrid
- mierda
- tequiero
20 most popular passwords among students
University and college students normally don’t give lots of attention to their .edu email. In fact, they just assume it’s only essential for studies. So, they have some of the most insecure passwords. For instance, three out of the top 5 passwords constitute easy guesses such as patterns, first names, and sporting activities.
And, given the technological expertise that university students are expected to have, it’s fair to say that they don’t regard emails and online learning with enough reverence.
Here are the most common .edu passwords:
- 123456
- 123456789
- 12345
- football
- 123123
- soccer
- 1234
- sunshine
- monkey
- princess
- 1234567
- password
- secret
- password1
- baseball
- abc123
- qwerty
- basketball
- ashley
- 12345678
Top 50 most common Wifi passwords
When people are creating Wi-Fi credentials, they tend not to pay attention to a “hideous” strong password.
Instead, they just play around with the keyword for a pattern. The majority of these passwords are letters and numerical patterns. Other people just write variations of their names as passwords.
Some passwords aren’t so easy to guess. However, there are several noobs who just like to keep them easy for memory. Here are popular wifi passwords worldwide:
- 12345678
- 1234abcd
- password
- password.
- 123456789.
- 111111111
- 1234567890
- Passwords.
- 12341234
- 1234512345
- 0000000000
- letmein
- 77777777
- 66666666
- 99999999
- loversloveme
- hatershateme
- 123456789
- abcd1234
- Password
- abcdefgh
- 12345678.
- 11111111
- 1111111111
- Passwords
- iloveyou
- 123123123
- 00000000
- logmein
- password1
- 88888888
- 55555555
- hatersloveme
- PASSWORD
- ###123###
- inksys
- belkin54g
- Apple Network 0273df
- admin
- password
- NETGEAR
- MiniAP
- public
- user
- (blank)/(none)
10 most common Facebook passwords
Many users typically create passwords about things that they hold close in their lives. For instance, it could be a pet name, birthday, candy, car, ice cream, or relative.
Here are some of the most popular Facebook passwords people have around the world.
- Dragon
- Princess
- Sunshine
- Password
- 654321
- Monkey
- Donald
- Nothing
- Welcome
- 999999
Quick facts about the most hacked passwords in the world
Here is the recap of details we found:
- The most hacked password in the United States of America is the password.
- Germany’s most popular password is 123456.
- The most hacked Russian password is qwerty.
- Most internet users create passwords from keyboard patterns. In fact, 25% of the most common passwords are simply keyboard patterns such as qwerty, 1q2w304r, and zaq12wsx.
- More than 60% of passwords are from repetitive numeric patterns—for example, 123456 and 111111 or 741852963.
- Germany and Spain lead to the use of numeric patterns as passwords.
- Russians use keyboard patterns more than any other country in the world.
- Greetings are popular as words in every country. In fact, they only translate the word hello in their language and use it as a password.
- The word password and its variations form the most popular credentials.
- Countries with large numbers of football fun tend to use major teams as their passwords. In England, for example, Liverpool has the highest number of club name passwords. In Italy, Milan and Juventus lead the pack. And in Spain, Real Madrid Barcelona, and Athletico are used as passwords heavily.
- 4.2% of passwords are a replica of the name used in the email. Italians are at 4.13%, Russians at 3.79%, and Germans at 2.5%.
- Then, about 0.03% of worldwide populations use their first name and numbers as passwords. Even though it sounds like a great thing to add numeric patterns to your password, it becomes easy to guess if you’re still using your name.
- More than 1% of the people used passwords from religious leaders in the year culture. For instance, Christ and Jesus head more than 7000 mentions in the password.
- Others concentrate on famous brands such as Apple, Samsung, Google, and LG.
- More than 4000 of the passwords we analyzed had friends as the password. Another 2300 used Star Wars. Other TV shows took a huge chunk of the passwords.
- Cristiano Ronaldo, CR7, and other popular sports personality variations also appeared conspicuously with more than 1250 mentions.
- Italian and American populations are more likely to use first names or words their birth years or emails as passwords. In fact, 4% of users in the world follow this trend.
- The phrase ‘iloveyou’ is widely used as a password by populations around the world after it gets translated into local languages.
- Numerical patterns and numbers are popular when people are signing up for a mobile phone website or a contact management application on their phone.
Most common phone patterns
Some people prefer to use or draw patterns on their phones to unlock. With the Iris recognition, the patterns are losing their place, but many people still prefer it.
Pattern locks get unlocked after a user draws an easy pattern that he can remember. 77% of people start drawing their patterns from the corner. 44% of people start drawing the patterns from the top-left nodes of their screen. In most cases, people only touch five nodes.
Another characteristic of most parts is that they move from left to right and top to bottom.
A study by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology shows that the probability of touching any of the nodes is as follows:
| Number of nodes | Node combination |
|---|---|
| 4 | 1624 |
| 5 | 7152 |
| 6 | 26016 |
| 7 | 72912 |
| 8 | 140704 |
| 9 | 389112 |
Most people are looking for patterns they can remember. So, the shapes tend to be an informal drawing of a popular symbol used. For instance, people tend to draw the cross or letters X, M, N or Z, and other letter patterns.
To secure Android or any other mobile device, whenever you are creating a pattern to unlock your phone, make sure to remember these three important things:
- First, whenever you draw a pattern, those who are near you are likely to see what you’re doing and copy it.
- Two, smart people just need to tilt your phone. Then your screen will show the path your fingers followed when drawing the pattern.
- Three, people are looking for a simple pattern that they have seen with other users.
Research shows that men are more likely to have complicated Android phone lock patterns than women are. Meaning, it is more challenging to unlock a man’s phone than a woman’s.
