Top of the list was 123456, appearing in more than 23 million passwords. The second-most popular string, 123456789, was not much harder to crack, while others in the top five included "qwerty", "password" and 1111111 (Shutterstock)Millions of people are still using easy-to-guess passwords like "123456" and "qwerty" on sensitive accounts, a study has found. The NCSC said people should string three random but memorable words together to use as a strong password. The second-most popular string, 123456789, was not much harder to crack, while others in the top five included "qwerty", "password" and 1111111. The most common name to be used in passwords was Ashley, followed by Michael, Daniel, Jessica and Charlie, the report found.

Source: The Telegraph April 21, 2019 05:26 UTC