You’ve probably realized by now that having (many) strong passwords is one of the best things you can do to protect your identity, your money, and your privacy in general (if you have trouble remembering a lot of different passwords, get a password manager).
Or at least, I hope you have – because there are still a disturbing number of people using “password” as their password like, everywhere.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2o5jRAJPqF/
Yeah, even at their banks and stuff.
Along with that one, here are 20 of the easiest-to-guess, least secure passwords you could choose.
So…don’t.
20. welcome
Yes, welcome to my credit card.
19. 7777777
Random number, they’ll never guess seven!
18. lovely
This is just random.
17. 555555
Another number over and over, yes, secure.
16. 654321
Oooh backwards counting!
15. qwertyuiop
This made me giggle.
14. admin
Talk about phoning it in.
13. 1q2w3e4r
I mean, at least you pretended to try.
12. qwerty123
They’ll never try a combination!
11. abc123
Aw, look at you being all tricksy like.
10. 123123
Who do you think you’re kidding?
9. 111111
They’ll never guess this one!!
8. iloveyou
That’s sweet. Let me take all of your money.
7. 12345
Isn’t 6 characters like some kind of minimum?
6. 12345678
You guys, please stop.
5. 1234567
No seriously, stop.
4. password
Yep, still on the list. I told you.
3. qwerty
This one makes me laugh. People are dumb.
2. 123456789
At least it’s long?
1. 123456
Yes, really.
I’m guilty of using variations of the same passwords for years on end, but none nearly as bad as these! Yeesh!
Are you guilty? Go ahead and out yourself in the comments!