If there was a silver lining to that debacle it was that when companies combed through the passwords in order to warn their customers they found an astonishing number of people use the same simple, easy to guess passwords.
From the records SpiderLabs and BBC News were able to the 25 most common passwords in the hacker's hands. If you see a password of yours on this list, time to change it.
- 123456
- 123456789
- password
- admin
- 12345678
- qwerty
- 1234567
- 111111
- photoshop
- 123123
- 1234567890
- 000000
- abc123
- 1234
- adobe1
- macromedia
- azerty
- iloveyou
- aaaaaa
- 654321