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Hackers have found the world's most common password in less than 1 second - make sure yours isn't on the list

Hackers have found the world's most common password in less than 1 second -

NordPass, a password management tool from the NordVPN team, released its list of the 200 most common passwords for 2022 – and it turns out that people are still using weak passwords.

The most common password in the world this year was "password" and it took hackers less than a second to crack it. The same applies to the second and third most common passwords: "123456" and "123456789", respectively.

The most important tip, though? If your password is on the list, it's time to make a change.

To make sure you haven't been hacked, here are the 20 most common NordPass passwords for this year:

password

123456

123456789

guest

qerty

12345678

111111

12345

col123456

123123

1234567

1234

1234567890

000000

555555

666666

123321

654321

See the full list at the link