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.

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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.

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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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You can read that article here.