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The most common password in the U.S. and worldwide: “123456,” according to NordPass’ 2021 list of the top 200 most common passwords. It takes hackers less than a second to crack it.

Weak passwords could put you and your customers’ data at risk for a breach. The U.S. has one of the highest amounts of passwords leaked per capita, according to NordPass, a software company that developed a password manager.

Here are the 25 most common passwords, according to NordPass’ rankings this year:

  1. 123456
  2. 123456789
  3. picture1
  4. password
  5. 12345678
  6. 111111
  7. 123123
  8. 12345
  9. 1234567890
  10. senha
  11. 1234567
  12. qwerty
  13. abc123
  14. Million2
  15. 000000
  16. 1234
  17. iloveyou
  18. aaron431
  19. password1
  20. qqww1122
  21. 123
  22. omgpop
  23. 123321
  24. 654321
  25. qwertyuiop
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