Strong passwords to our personal accounts protect us from sophisticated hackers who want to breach our personal data.
According to relevant research, a very easy and common code can be “cracked” in less than a second, while even slightly more complex, but common codes require regarding three hours.
In the survey conducted on behalf of NordPass, the password management tool by the company NordVPN, the most common password among 35 countries for the past year was “123456”.
Here are the 20 most frequent codes in Greece for 2023:
1. admin
2. 123456
3. 123456789
4. 12345
5. user
6. 12345678
7. 1234
8. 111111
9. 1234567890
10. password
11. katerina
12. 1234567
13. 11223344
14. A1B2C3D4E5
15. 000000
16. 1234qwer
17. giorgos7
18. Password
19. kalamata
20.nikos12345
At the same time, globally, the most common passwords were the following:
1. 1232456
2. admin
3. 12345678
4. 123456789
5. 1234
6. 12345
7. password
8. 123
9. Aa123456
10. 1234567890
However, you can follow some useful tips to have strong passwords:
Don’t use common words that can be easily hacked.
Never use information regarding yourself in your passwords that people who know you can easily guess (eg date of birth)
Create a password of at least 12 characters.
Make sure your password contains a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers, symbols and special characters.
Don’t use the exact same password on all your online accounts.
Do not use passwords that consist only of numbers and symbols.
Do not reuse your password.
Use unusual words that only you know and don’t make sense to other people.
At regular intervals (eg 3 or 6 months) passwords should be changed.
Make sure your password doesn’t include keyboard-derived combinations like qwerty.
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