Always make sure to pick a popular password people, you don't want your hacker to think you are a special snowflake.

P@ssw0rd is ahead of Password. Times they are a changin

Am I unreasonably disappointed to not find “Correct Horse Battery Staple” - or some variation thereof - in that list?

Top 3 are still the same from previous years

1. 12345
2. 123456
3. 12345678

It’s official: “123456” has once again claimed the controversial title of the world’s most common password — and one of the weakest. That marks six out of seven years this password has topped our chart

Looking at the different countries is also funny. The only password I'm not surprised about is admin, because that's probably the default for most devices maybe? Unless user changes it manually.

But my question is, are these only "hacked" passwords? Because those who are not hacked, you don't know what passwords they have. So this is a bit of bias here, right?

12345

That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Thankfully my password, hunter2, isn't in there.

For the longest time the admin password for the router at work was PasswordReset.124, the useless penetration testers didn't even pick up on it.

I've changed it to something actually random and then, following established industry standard security practises, somebody else has gone and written it on a post-it note, and stuck it to the router. So we're all fine now.

I'm extremely tempted to "hack" the network and bring it down only to be the hero that brings it back up after a few hours of non-productivity. But I feel like if they found out that might be a firing offence.

Long passwords are more secure which is why I chose PasswordAdminQwertyAbcdefg1234567890987654321

theworldinyourhand

Really? is that from something?

do they account for the circumstances?

most public wifi login pages get: u: abc@def.com p: qwerty

from me.

I assume those types of services get breached all the time and no one cares. I think they just want plausible deniability on acceptable use of the wifi.

Damn, doesn't load for me :/

Decided to click on some countries and im pretty sure some of irelands ones are for tv shows.

There was a post on here a while ago about the most popular four digit PIN numbers. I think the top five were

1234
7890
1212
1111
And 1701

We're are all so original

Methodology

The Top 200 Most Common Passwords report is the result of a joint effort between NordPass and NordStellar, prepared in collaboration with independent researchers specializing in cybersecurity incidents. Recent public data breaches and dark web repositories were analyzed from September 2024 to September 2025 to identify statistically aggregated data. No personal data was acquired or purchased for this research.

Okay, so how valid is this really if they're only using those passwords that were hacked?

Good news everyone ! "top 200 most common passwords" isn't in the list, so we can keep using that one !

gen z

nr 7: skibidi

nr 10: assword

Sounds about right

hunter2

18. admintelcom

Huh?

I don't know who is jesse kissa, but she seems pretty popular in Finland

It's interesting how older generations tend to use names for passwords.

What an infuriating webpage layout. I can only see six passwords before having to scroll.