I should change my password, so should Washington, and in fact, the whole world might as well do it!
One of the funniest movie scenes I’ve ever seen came from the Mel Brooks Star Wars parody, Spaceballs.
In this particular scene, Lord Helmet and Colonel Sanders are finally getting the combination to the airlock to suck all the oxygen from planet Druidia.
‘Druish’ King Roland tells them the combination. “1, 2, 3, 4, 5.”
To which Lord Helmet repeats it saying that’s the type of combination an idiot has on his luggage, only to be joined by President Skroob, remarking how he needs to change his luggage combination.
list of computer passwords written on a note pad.
Growing up, that has stuck with me, so I tried my best to not be THAT IDIOT with an easy combination, but I have to admit, in jobs were I had to work a 10-Key often, ‘1,2,3,4,5’ was pretty handy.
After the 6th annual NordPass password report, it seems I’m not the only one and that there are a lot of idiots with hackable luggage and online accounts!
The fine folks who help manage passwords at NordPass have been analyzing passwords that were stolen by data leaks, and lord knows there have been a lot of them this year.
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They’ve compiled the most common passwords that are the easiest (and some would say dumbest) passwords to guess.
The top 5 passwords in 44 different countries that were analyzed by NordPass:
#1: 123456
#2: 123456789
#3: 12345678
#4: password
#5: qwerty123
The top 5 in the United States that were analyzed by NordPass:
#1: secret
#2: 123456
#3: password
#4: qwerty123
#5: qwerty1
Check out Gizmodo.com to see the top 20 passwords scoured by NordPass, including which country has ‘9-11-1961’ as its password… and no, we do not know why that particular date is important either!
Now that you’ve read this, do you need to change your password or are you good to go? Tap the App and let us know (but please don’t share your passwords with us, we’re terrible at keeping secrets).
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