New Delhi: Indian Internet users using easily hackable password options such as “password” and its variants such as “password@123,” “password123,” “password@1,” and “password1” to secure their online accounts Let’s continue, claims a report on the most common passwords of 2022 by NordPass, the password manager arm of Nord Secuirty. In 2022, “password” alone was used 4.9 million times by users globally and 3.4 million times in India. The second most preferred password in India was “123456” used 166,757 times, while the fourth most used BigBasket was used 75,081 times.
According to the report, some other commonly used passwords in India include “qwerty,” “anmol123” and “googledummy.” Easy keyboard combination of numbers, letters and symbols. Many users also prefer to have country names in their passwords, such as “India123” and “India@123”.
NordPass’ findings show that 73% of the 200 most common passwords used in 2022 are the same as last year. They also found that 83% of the passwords on the list could be cracked in under a second. The use of BigBasket as the fourth most used password in India is a reflection of the changing habits of consumers for online grocery ordering post COVID-19.
Furthermore, the report found that many users prefer to express love or hate through passwords. For example, “iloveyou” and its translations in other languages are widely used in many countries, including India, where “iloveyou” was ranked 81st. On the other hand, in the US, Canada and Australia, “fuckyou,” “fuck you,” “fuckyou1” were found to be used by many people.
For its research, NordPass compiled a list of passwords in collaboration with independent researchers specializing in cyber security incidents. They analyzed a 3TB database of passwords to perform statistical analysis based on countries.
Although the use of easily guessed characters as passwords is dangerous, given the huge increase in cyberattacks on individuals and organizations, NordPass Chief Product Officer Eva Soblicite noted that rapidly developing technologies such as Open Authentication 2.0 have led to the use of passwords. Violating is getting harder. This, Soblicite said, is one reason why the sample of passwords available in the public domain for analysis was much smaller than in previous years.
Soblicite points out that more websites are now using Open Authentication 2.0, an industry-standard that allows websites and apps to access user resources hosted by other web apps without sharing their passwords.
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