Splashdata releases their annual list of worst passwords for 2015

  • 19 January 2016
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New to the list is "starwars", apparently due to the popularity of the new movie:
 
If your password is on this list, you better change it ASAP. The 25 worst passwords of 2015 have been released by Los Gatos, Calif.-based SplashData.
 
The company, which makes password management software, compiles the annual list from the most common passwords leaked online each year — more than two million in 2015.
 
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Some people will never learn despite the publicity but I wonder how many of those in "sensitive" jobs are guilty because this is not just the home user at fault.
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Good point Jasper sensitive jobs require strong......strong...... passwords and they need to make sure there changer regular basis.

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