The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2015
For the past five years, Splashdata has published an annual list of the 25 most commonly used passwords that they have derived from millions of stolen passwords over the past 12 months. The 2015 list is the result of over 2 million leaked passwords that have made it online. This list is an attempt to educate people on what’s commonly used so they can start thinking about changing passwords to something more complex and random. Sadly, after five years, not much has changed on the top 25 worst password list. Long time password favorites 123456 and password remain in the top two spots and the list doesn’t look really look at different from several years ago.
Below you will find the complete list of the most commonly used passwords in order of their popularity. You’ll also find a “+” or a “-” with a number next to each password to indicate whether it saw a growth, no change, or a reduction in popularity over the previous year’s list. It is estimated that about 3% of people are using these 25 worst passwords. If you are using one of these passwords on one of your systems or accounts, we strongly urge you to change it.
- 123456 (0)
- password (0)
- 12345678 (+1)
- qwerty (+1)
- 12345 (-2)
- 123456789 (0)
- football (+3)
- 1234 (-1)
- 1234567 (+2)
- baseball (-2)
- welcome (new)
- 1234567890 (new)
- abc123 (+1)
- 111111 (+1)
- 1qaz2wsx (new)
- dragon (-7)
- master (+2)
- monkey (-6)
- letmein (-6)
- login (new)
- princess (new)
- qwertyuiop (new)
- solo (new)
- passw0rd (new)
- starwars (new)
