The Top 25 Most Used Passwords In 2015

With more and more social media websites and services becoming mainstream, you are inundated with having to remember tons of passwords.  So, when people need to remember a dozen different passwords, you tend to start not caring about security as much and use passwords like "password."

Don't do that!  It's way too easy to get your account hacked if you use a password like "password" or "hello" or "123456".  And once someone gets into one of your accounts, they can start to use the information provided there to get into other accounts.

The data security firm, SplashData,recently released their list of the top 25 most used passwords from 2015.  If you have one of these as a password for an account that contains sensitive material...  CHANGE IT!

The 25 most-used passwords (change from 2014)

1. 123456 (unchanged)
2. password (unchanged)
3. 12345678 (up 1)
4. qwerty (up 1)
5. 12345 (down 2)
6. 123456789 (unchanged)
7. football (up 3)
8. 1234 (down 1)
9. 1234567 (up 2)
10. baseball (down 2)
11. welcome (new)
12. 1234567890 (new)
13. abc123 (up 1)
14. 111111 (up 1)
15. 1qaz2wsx (new)
16. dragon (down 7)
17. master (up 2)
18. monkey (down 6)
19. letmein (down 6)
20. login (new)
21. princess (new)
22. qwertyuiop (new)
23. solo (new)
24. passw0rd (new)
25. starwars (new)