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One of the world's worst passwords, 123456, helped a hacker steal 8.8 million people's data in Denmark


Number sequences starting with 1 dominate lists of the most common passwords – there were ten of them in last year's top 20. The most popular of...

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'123456' password was the only thing standing between hacker and data of 8.8 million people