In this day and age, password security is sometimes our first line of defence against malicious activity. SplashData recently released the worst passwords of 2018 by analyzing over 5,000,000 leaked passwords and looking at the most-used passwords. The top-10 list looks like this:
- 123456
- password
- 123456789
- 12345678
- 12345
- 111111
- 1234567
- sunshine
- qwerty
- iloveyou
SplashData had released this list annually in an effort to encourage people to use more secure passwords.
If you or someone you know uses a password on this list for any purpose, change it immediately!
In this chapter, we will follow in the footsteps of SplashData and perform our own password analysis on over 1,000,000 passwords that were leaked for one reason or another. We will study the following topics:
