{"id":3987,"date":"2020-12-22T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T08:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.passwordsafe.de\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:25:01","slug":"the-most-popular-passwords-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/blog\/the-most-popular-passwords-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The most popular Passwords 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1664px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Once a year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hpi.de\/en\/index.html\">Hasso Plassner Institute<\/a> publishes the &#8220;List of Shame&#8221; &#8211; the TOP 10 most popular passwords 2020: what it looks like this year and what companies can learn from this list \u2026<\/h4> <figure class=\"wp-block-table\"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>1st Place<\/td> <td>123456<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>2nd Place<\/td> <td>123456789<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>3rd Place<\/td> <td>password<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>4th Place<\/td> <td>hallo123<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>5th Place<\/td> <td>12345678<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>6th Place<\/td> <td>iloveyou<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>7th Place<\/td> <td>1234567<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>8th Place<\/td> <td>1234567890<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>9th Place<\/td> <td>lol123<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>10th Place<\/td> <td>12345<\/td> <\/tr> <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/figure> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<\/h2> <h3>Companies not immune to &#8220;12345&#8221;<\/h3> <p>The security level of these passwords can be compared to the following symbol &#8211; a front door with the key already in it. The hacker does not even have to make an effort &#8211; turning the key is enough. If you look at this list of top passwords and see teenagers sitting in front of you who &#8220;don&#8217;t know any better yet,&#8221; you&#8217;re wrong \u2026 Such insecure passwords are peddled in companies, too: For example, they are brought in by employees who also use these passwords privately.\u00a0<\/p> <h3>&#8220;lol123&#8221; &#8211; no laughing matter<\/h3> <p>What else can be gleaned from this sad top list: Strings of numbers in particular are always popular and represented several times in this TOP 10. This shows that passwords like &#8220;12345&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/what-for-team-security\/\">123456789<\/a>&#8221; are longer or shorter depending on the minimum requirement. And it also proves something else important: People who use these passwords are aware of the security guidelines &#8211; they just, unfortunately, bypass them easily or meet them only on the minimal principle in order to be able to register. With a password manager like Password Safe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/what-for-password-policies\/\">password policies<\/a> can be easily implemented so that passwords \u00e0 la &#8220;213456&#8221; are nipped in the bud.<\/p> <p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/what-for-better-password-hygiene\/\">here more about good password hygiene.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a year, the Hasso Plassner Institute publishes the \u201cList of Shame\u201d \u2013 the TOP 10 most popular passwords 2020: what it looks like this year and what companies can learn from this list \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,10],"tags":[441,439,440,437,438,435,436,442],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-2","category-uncategorized","tag-123456-en","tag-439","tag-hallo123","tag-hasso-plattner-institute","tag-list-of-shame","tag-most-popular-passwords-2020","tag-most-used-passwords","tag-password-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The most popular Passwords 2020 &#8211; Password safe - Passwortverwaltung<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What are the most popular passwords and why is that critical concerning cyberattacks? 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