The most common method of hacking into someone's on-line account is guessing the password.
Hackers call easy-to-guess passwords "low-hanging fruit" because it's easiest to reach.
Internet security firm SplashData has now released a list of the 25 worst passwords it's come across so far this year involving hacked accounts.
Click "Continue Reading" to find out what they are:
- password
- 123456
- 12345678
- qwerty
- abc123
- monkey [we're not sure why this one is so high up the list, but whatever]
- 1234567
- letmein
- trustno1 [hahahahaha]
- dragon
- baseball
- 111111
- iloveyou
- master
- sunshine
- ashley
- bailey
- passw0rd [oh, you're so clever, substituting a number for a letter]
- shadow
- 123123
- 654321
- superman [the real Superman would use a far better password, like 'f0rtre550f501itud3']
- qazwsx
- michael
- football
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