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Study: Employees play fast and loose with passwords

February 11, 2010 by Jennifer Azara
Posted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Technology


Every CEO would like to think that employees are protecting company PCs with hard-to-crack passwords. Maybe not. 

If your company mirrors the findings of a recent survey, then you’re probably a lot more vulnerable than you thought.

A recent analysis of 32 million passwords by RockYou.com found that many folks are relying on some pretty common and pretty predictable combinations.

Check out the 10 most frequent ones — then talk with IT and supervisors to remind them that the following should never be used:

  1. 123456 (290,731 users)
  2. 12345 (79,078 users)
  3. 123456789 (76,790 users)
  4. Password (61,958 users)
  5. Iloveyou (51,622 users)
  6. Princess (35,231 users)
  7. Rockyou (22,588 users)
  8. 1234567 (21,726 users)
  9. 12345678 (20,553 users)
  10. abc123 (17,542 users)
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