Passwords – we all use them, and I think we can agree they are a pain in the neck.

VPN company NordPass, in conjunction with NordStellar, has published its sixth annual list of the Top 200 Most Common Passwords.

Trust me when I say, you don’t want to find any of your passwords on this list.

Here are the top 10 personal passwords from the United States:

This year they’ve also published an additional list of the Top 200 Corporate Passwords. Here are the top 10 from the United States:

Those corporate passwords would never be allowed at my workplace, nor would they be allowed if there were any kind of decent password requirements. Typically, passwords should be more than 8 characters with both capital and lower-case letters, at least one number and one special character.

Where I work passwords are at least 12 characters, and I log into a few secure systems that require passwords that have more than 20 characters.

Some random entries from the Top 200 list (and their rank) include: q1w2e3r4t5y61 (62), Abcd@1234 (72), Nicole (77), Anthony (107), batman (136) and 000000000 (149).

The passwords were found in a 2.5 terabyte database extracted from various publicly available sources, including the dark web.

If you’d like to see the entire list, go to https://nordpass.com/most-common-passwords-list.

 - TNS