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Americans Are Using the Dumbest Possible Passwords (2024 Edition)


There are quite a few bad ones, as well as some head-scratchers.

The latest batch of lists include not just personal credentials like in previous years, but also corporate passwords. Obviously, it looks like a date that either stands for September 11, 1961 (the American format) or November 9, 1961 (the rest of the world). If “aaron431” was chosen as the default password for some gigantic corporation and that particular company saw a very bad breach, it would make sense to see that one more frequently.

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