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[robkelk]

The annual list of common passwords is up. If you see your password in this post, change your password.

Top 200 most common passwords

Worldwide, it's topped by those perennial favourites "password", "123456", "123456789", "guest", and "qwerty".

The UK top five are "password", "123456", "guest", "liverpool", and "qwerty".

The US top five are "guest", "123456", "password", "12345", and "a1b2c3"

The Canada top five are "123456", "password", "54321", "123456789", and "guest"

The Japan top five are "123456", "password", "1234", "12345678", and "akubisa2020". (And "sakura" is seventh.)

The Denmark top five are "123456789", "123456", "12345", "1234", and "password"

With the exception of "liverpool" and "akubisa2020", every password listed here in a particular country's top five is in the worldwide top fifty.

So... If you must create your own password so that you can remember it, make sure it's at least 12 characters long (eight isn't long enough any more), with at least one upper-case letter, at least one lower-case letter, at least one digit, and at least one non-alphanumeric character. And substituting "a" with "@", "i" with "!", or other LEET-speak tricks, isn't going to slow down the hackers at all any more.


EDIT:
* robkelk looks at top ten movie-based passwords

"Alien Maverick Psycho Terminator" would be a good name for a rock band...