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How Common Are Your Passwords?

UPDATED ON
April 28, 2023
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After conducting research on the world’s largest 500 companies across 20 industries, Carrier Managment put together a list of the 10 most commonly used passwords, and the results are a testament to the poor level of security at this first, most basic line of cybersecurity.

At the top of that list of most common passwords, perhaps unsurprisingly, is “password” followed by “123456”, so even in 2023 there are a shocking number of business professionals who are practically inviting bad actors to hack their accounts through their password strength negligence.

What may be more surprising, however, is that two-thirds of the remaining top 10 most common passwords involve some version of the company name potentially followed by a series of 3 numbers, often ‘123’. Business professionals adopting this kind of password scheme may falsely believe that their password is more rare than it is, thus providing a false sense of security. 

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