Cyber study reveals 'millions of users have 123456, 1111111, 123456789 easy-to-guess passwords which lead to danger of being exploited'. Read full list here

A study by UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) uncovered gaps in cyber-kwledge that may leave people in danger of being exploited. anylisis says that millions of people are still using easy-to-guess passwords like “123456” and “qwerty” on sensitive accounts which can be dangerous. 

NCSC said people should string three random but memorable words toger to use as a strong password.

For its first cyber-survey, NCSC analysed public databases of breached accounts to see which words, phrases and strings people used: 

• Top of list was 123456, appearing in more than 23 million passwords
• second-most popular string, 123456789, was t much harder to crack
• Ors in top five included “qwerty”, “password” and 1111111
• most common name to be used in passwords was Ashley, followed by Michael, Daniel, Jessica and Charlie, report found

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People who use well-kwn words or names for a password put mselves people at risk of being hacked, said Ian Levy, technical director of NCSC.

“body should protect sensitive data with something that can be guessed, like ir first name, local football team or favourite band,” he said.

(With inputs from PTI)