The most commonly used passwords on the internet - Research

The social networking site LinkedIn was the talking point of Infosec community this week because of the data breach of its 117 Million users. The site was initially hacked four years ago, but the results of hack are showing now. The data of its users is up for sales on dark web according to various sources.

This isn't the first time a major internet giant have fallen victim of data breach, which affected its millions of users all over the world. Last year Ashley Madison an online dating website was hacked which have led to the resignation of its CEO and destroyed the marriages of many people.

However, the question is how hackers are able to breach these highly secured websites and gain passwords of millions of users. Yes, mainly it's because of the lack of cyber security steps taken by those organizations, but the users are equally responsible for becoming a victim of these hacking attacks. 

EHacking researchers have seen that most of the passwords that are hacked previously are commonly used around the globe and most people doesn't care if their password isn't secure. The passwords leaked from the latest LinkedIn hack are similar to the hacks of past years. 

We have gathered the list of most commonly used passwords on the internet right now. List also includes the passwords leaked after the LinkedIn hack.  

Rank	Password	Frequency
1	123456	753,305
2	linkedin	172,523
3	password	144,458
4	123456789	94,314
5	12345678	63,769
6	111111	57,210
7	1234567	49,652
8	sunshine	39,118
9	qwerty	37,538
10	654321	33,854
11	000000	32,490
12	password1	30,981
13	abc123	30,398
14	charlie	28,049
15	linked	25,334
16	maggie	23,892
17	michael	23,075
18	666666	22,888
19	princess	22,122
20	123123	21,826
21	iloveyou	20,251
22	1234567890	19,575
23	Linkedin1	19,441
24	daniel	19,184
25	bailey	18,805
26	welcome	18,504
27	buster	18,395
28	Passw0rd	18,208
29	baseball	17,858
30	shadow	17,781
31	121212	17,134
32	hannah	17,040
33	monkey	16,958
34	thomas	16,789
35	summer	16,652
36	george	16,620
37	harley	16,275
38	222222	16,165
39	jessica	16,088
40	ginger	16,040
41	michelle	16,024
42	abcdef	15,938
43	sophie	15,884
44	jordan	15,839
45	freedom	15,793
46	555555	15,664
47	tigger	15,658
48	joshua	15,628
49	pepper	15,610

How to create a strong password

Creating a strong password needs the combination of alphabets, numbers, signs. Here are some examples: 

3Hghfwg-09;l or gTHncdsY93]ND