One in Six Accounts Secured With Password '123456'

The team at Keeper, a password manager application, has compiled a list of 2016's most commonly used passwords, and yet again people have chosen the simplistic "123456" as their favorite password in 2016.

According to the Keeper team, this list has been compiled by aggregating passwords leaked in data breaches during the past year.

The Keeper team assembled over 10 million leaked user records, and after analyzing the leaked data, more than 1.7 million accounts were secured with the "123456" password, almost one in every six profiles.

123456 ranked first for the third year in a row, after similar research from TeamsID placed it at the top of the worst passwords list in both 2014 and 2015.

The full list of the worst passwords of 2016 is as follows:

1. 123456
2. 123456789
3. qwerty
4. 12345678
5. 111111
6. 1234567890
7. 1234567
8. password
9. 123123
10. 987654321
11. qwertyuiop
12. mynoob
13. 123321
14. 666666
15. 18atcskd2w
16. 7777777
17. 1q2w3e4r
18. 654321
19. 555555
20. 3rjs1la7qe
21. google
22. 1q2w3e4r5t
23. 123qwe
24. zxcvbnm
25. 1q2w3e

Most of the above passwords are simple combinations that we've seen time and time again, but two passwords stand apart, due to their high-level of complexity: 18atcskd2w and 3rjs1la7qe.

These passwords belong to accounts leaked from the VerticalScope Network in June, and most likely belong to spam bots that have signed up for the VerticalScope forums.

Besides these two passwords, the top 25 list is pestered with simple passwords, showing once more why using a password manager to generate and remember passwords is a must in your daily cyber-life, where sometimes you might need to handle and remember tens or hundreds of passwords each month. Without a password manager, most users resort to reusing (complex) passwords, or using simplistic passwords that are easy to guess.