May 2 is World Password Day — celebrate by strengthening your passwords.
Step 1? Recognizing when your passwords need some work. SplashData produces an annual list of the worst passwords based on more than 5 million leaked passwords. Here are the top 15 worst passwords of 2018:
- 123456
- password
- 123456789
- 12345678
- 12345
- 111111
- 1234567
- sunshine
- qwerty
- iloveyou
- princess
- admin
- welcome
- 666666
- abc123
Other passwords that made the top 100 included "football," "monkey," and for the first time, "Donald."
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