UK’s NCSC discovered that the easy-to-guess password ‘123456’ is the world’s most hacked password.
According to an analysis by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the world’s most hacked password is ‘123456.
An analysis by the UK’s NCSC of public databases of breached accounts discovered that the easy-to-guess password ‘123456’ is the world’s most hacked password.
It also discovered that millions of people are still using it on sensitive user accounts.
The study further found that about 23.2 million victim accounts used ‘123456’ as their password.
Here’s top 5 world’s most hacked passwords list.
| Position | Password | No. of victims |
| 5 | 1111111 | 3.1 million |
| 4 | password | 3.6 million |
| 3 | qwerty | 3.8 million |
| 2 | 123456789 | 7.7 million |
| 1 | 123456 | 23.2 million |
