Password Safety Analysis
Password safety is an important topic that every user on the internet and beyond should be mindful of. Many enterprise applications are now using Multi-Factor Authentication and Passkeys to keep their users more secure. But our curious brains at MultiMinds started wondering how many users actually take this seriously, and choose a strong password. So of course, we have launched a large-scale investigation.
We have taken the liberty of tracking as many login forms as we possibly could in order to gather a large amount of email addresses and passwords to analyse.
First, let's have a look at the most common passwords:
Password | Count |
|---|---|
123456 | 112,648 |
Password1! | 48,612 |
Password123! | 32,551 |
admin | 20,454 |
Fish0104 | 8,649 |
Fish0104! | 8,344 |
MultiMindsRox01$$ | 5,452 |
SquidwardMyBoo<3 | 4,112 |
YouWillNeverGuessThisLol1337__ | 1,546 |
Ilovemygrandmother4ever!!1!1!!! | 1,501 |
In the table above we can clearly see that many users still use very unsafe passwords, such as "123456", "admin", and "Password1!".
We also noticed a strange phenomenon where a surprising amount of users use the word "Fish" with a seemingly random combination of numbers as their password.
Unsurprisingly, many users decided to use "MultiMindsRox" as part of their password. While flattering, passwords like these are too obvious, and thus unsafe!
If you currently also have a weak password, have a look at the 5 best passwords we found. This could give you an idea of what a good password looks like:
Email Address | Password |
|---|---|
siegert.dierickx@multiminds.eu | @Y2rXsZ&0CAkax30rPeu@@pB |
devid.legoventje@gmail.com | 2U3cJVYiLoveMultiMindsCr#h64edFfC$%t |
taylor.swift@music.com | Vu3NK0XmmBackToApril_01_WT%28zRv |
agneske.van.op.den.hoek@telenet.be | V5Ei63nKgGL#!1aEJRttYDZq |
klein_snoeperke@hotmail.com | p4BC9h3P@fydx65rc5Mo/GIZ |
Siegert Dierickx, one of our two beloved founders of MultiMinds, has a great password. "@Y2rXsZ&0CAkax30rPeu@@pB" is a random combination of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters. If someone would try to crack a password like this, it would take them trillions of years. Celebrities like Taylor Swift must also have good passwords, as many people will be interested in hacking their accounts. And after a conversation with Agneske, the friendly owner of the corner store, she also updated her password to a much safer one!
To increase the range of our investigation, we decided to take it offline, and asked people on the streets of Aalst for their passwords. Unfortunately, even though we were very clear that it is for an analysis, and we did not want to log in to their accounts, people were still reluctant to share their passwords with us.
To conclude this research, our predictive analysis estimates that 84% of the readers of this page will realise by now that this is an April Fools' joke.
Of course, we never track any passwords at all!
However, let this be a little reminder that you should make sure that your passwords are always up to code: they should be long enough and not too obvious!
Stay safe, and enjoy the month of April!
