. Of these, 56% were not unique. That's nearly 153 million passwords that had been used more than once. While 123456 remained the most commonly used password of 2020, with 2.5 million appearances on the list, every single one of them represents a security failure.
Easy to remember passwords most often, although there are exceptions such as the use of passphrases that link several seemingly unconnected words together, mean insecure ones. Even if you use a passphrase, that's fine for a single account, but how do you remember multiple passphrases without weakening your security posture?
It's not like there is any lack of high-profile data breaches where user passwords are scooped up and made available for cybercriminal use, after all. The number of breached accounts in the
From criminals, not hackers…