Calling all punk lovers, metal thrashers, and hip-hop fanatics. If you’ve chosen some of your favourite bands as your passwords, you may want to rethink that.
The National Cyber Security Centre in the UK has released a list of the 100,000 most hacked passwords in the world. And unfortunately for you, if your password just happens to be Blink-182, it’s time to track down your accounts and change that shit.
If you love Blink-182 and set your password in the late 90s, you should probably rethink that choice. Band names are amongst the world’s most hacked passwords.
Of the list, a number of some of the biggest bands in the world (and of the early 00s when the majority of people were coming up with the passwords they’d use for the rest of their known lives) have ranked pretty high up. ‘blink182’ is the highest up, with ‘slipknot’, ‘metallica’, ’50cent’ and ’eminem’ also making notable appearances.
Naturally, the most hacked password is ‘123456’, so all you unimaginative folks has also better hop on it and change your shit up.
You can check out the full list here and do a cheeky ctrl+F to see if any of yours have made the cut.
