Businesses still havent stopped using weak passwords, and its getting super risky

Date:
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:32:00 +0000

Description:
NordPass research finds hundreds of thousands of business accounts are still using easy to crack passwords.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Business es still haven't stopped using easily crackable passwords Germany, the US,
and China suffer the most password breaches 123456, password, and qwerty are still being used in 2025

Many businesses are still using weak passwords that can be cracked in less than a second in the event of a brute force attack to secure their accounts, new research from one of the best password managers , NordPass, has found.

Passwords such as 123456, secret, and even password are being used by thousands of businesses across the world, resulting in easy picking for hackers.

The research also found Germany was top in the world for password breaches, with 582,067 incidents, closely followed by the US with 502,435, and China at 448,375. The password is password

NordPass research used a 2.5 terabyte database compiled from numerous publicly available data sets, including some from the dark web that covered
11 industries.

For enterprise, the most common password in the database was 123456789 with 378,182 uses, followed by the much easier to remember 123456 with 356,341 uses, and just to round it all out 12345678 comes in third with 145,688 uses.

Small and medium businesses dont fare much better, with 123456 topping the list for both with a total of 852,861 across both business sizes. Other classic passwords such as qwerty123, abc123, and iloveyou also appear on the list, taking less than one second to crack.

Interestingly, the 28th most used password in NordPass dataset was
TimeLord12, possibly suggesting that an IT worker with a love for Peter Capaldis work as the twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who was in charge of creating over 30,447 accounts that were later exposed.

NordPass also found many users who didnt use the most common passwords would often use their own email address as their password, making it fairly easy
for an attacker to crack their accounts. Names were also a common inclusion
in the database, suggesting that employees were using their own names as a password. (Image credit: Passwork)

If youve seen your password somewhere in this article or in NordPass research , it might be time to change it to something more secure, lest you be responsible for a breach.

In order to better protect corporate accounts, businesses should put in place password creation rules that make it harder to use simple passwords that can be easily cracked. NordPass also offers a business password manager tier to help businesses generate and store passwords securely.

Businesses should also implement two-factor authentication when signing in to accounts to help verify that the person accessing the account is a legitimate user, and not a crook with stolen credentials. Businesses can also switch
over to using passkeys, which use secure authentication to log in without the need to remember complex passwords. You might also like These are the best password managers for families Take a look at our guide to the best parental control apps Google is going to let you transfer your passkeys to a new phone



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