Business owners and managers also tend to use weak or crappy passwords



Passwords should be made and used as

secure as possible so that they cannot be used by others, but in reality, passwords that are easy to remember, such as '123456' and 'qwerty', are used. This trend has been found to be the same for business owners and managers who should be dealing with information that should be sensitive to security.

Top Passwords Used By Business Executives | NordPass
https://nordpass.com/business-executive-passwords/



The passwords most used by CEOs are startlingly dumb | PC Gamer
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-passwords-most-used-by-ceos-are-startlingly-dumb/

This was revealed by NordPass , a security company that deals with password managers and others.

According to the data, there were 220,405 cases of using the password '123456', which is almost insecure, and 64,594 cases of using '123456789' even among managers and managers.

There are many cases where the name is used for the password, and 100,534 cases of 'Tiffany', 33,699 cases of 'Charlie', 10,647 cases of 'Michael', and 10,472 cases of 'Jordan' were confirmed. I did.

In some cases, the names of creatures were used as passwords, with 'Dragon' (11,926 cases) and 'monkey' (11,675 cases) digging into the top.

The order of the 1st to 50th CEO cases is like this.

Ranking password Number of uses
1 123456 29,401
2 password password 22,511
3 12345 11,867
Four 123456789 10,988
Five qwerty 9,738
6 1234 6,520
7 qwerty123 6,446
8 1q2w3e 5,809
9 111111 5,487
Ten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 5,099
11 11 info info 4,942
12 DEFAULT 4,451
13 1q2w3e4r5t 4,330
14 Password 4,238
15 1234567 3,479
16 16 one two three 3,404
17 17 infoinfo 3,214
18 18 123123 3,055
19 19 1234567890 2,553
20 welcome 2,376
twenty one abc123 2,302
twenty two 123321 2,027
twenty three 654321 2,025
twenty four 0 1,956
twenty five qwe123 1,944
26 7777777 1,905
27 test 1,880
28 28 password1 1,775
29 1q2w3e4r 1,733
30 666666 1,727
31 Switzerland 1,653
32 1111 1,648
33 33 555555 1,598
34 aaaaaa 1,595
35 asdfgh 1,562
36 qwertyuiop 1,519
37 37 test123 1,513
38 11111111 1,499
39 39 222222 1,465
40 1111111 1,373
41 41 1qaz2wsx 1,361
42 qazwsx 1,350
43 SKIFFY 1,310
44 11111 1,277
45 45 123qwe 1,269
46 Willkommen 1,236
47 47 temppass 1,183
48 112233 1,149
49 121212 1,115
50 777777 1,099


in Security, Posted by logc_nt