I know a few people who just keep resetting their passwords, but that's a pain. So you can see how some of these may have come about. We're all fed up with the whole concept of passwords, and to me, it seems like when I come up with a creative password, I need to change it again. How about the sites that say "You can't use one of your last 5 passwords?" Hunh? I can't even remember the last one let alone the past 5.
But whatever you do set them to, avoid these common ones.
- 123456 (ranked number one last year)
- Password (also unchanged in ranking)
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 12345
- 123456789
- letmein
- 1234567
- football
- iloveyou
- admin
- welcome
- monkey (new to the list)
- login
- abc123
- starwars (new to the list)
- 123123 (new to the list)
- dragon
- passw0rd
- master
- hello (new to the list)
- freedom (new to the list)
- whatever (new to the list)
- qazwsx (new to the list)
- trustno1 (new to the list)