According to NordPass, in 2023 users had the weakest passwords for their streaming accounts.
Location-related words were also discovered in people's passwords, 'India@123' is one of the top results for the country
Last year’s global winner ‘password’ did not leave Internet users’ passwords, ‘password’, ‘Pass@123’, ‘Password@123’, and similar variations appeared among the most common passwords this year.
Word ‘admin’ is one of the passwords that people do not bother changing, made it among this year’s most common passwords in India
Researchers examined a 6.6 TB password database that had been compromised by multiple types of stealer malware.
Numbers make up over a third (31%) of the most often used passwords in the world, including "123456789," "12345," "000000," and others.
The report claims that it is possible to crack up to 70% of the passwords on this year's global list in less than a second.
'123456' was the most widely used password globally and among Indians in 2023, according to a new survey released on Thursday.