Millions using ‘123456’ as a password: Security study
Millions of people are using easy-to-guess passwords on sensitive accounts, with “123456” being the most widely-used on breached accounts, suggests a security study.
The study by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) helped to uncover the gaps in cyber-knowledge that could leave people in danger of being exploited, the BBC reported on Sunday.
For its first cyber-survey, the NCSC analysed public databases of breached accounts to see which words, phrases and strings people used.
