Back in January, Imperva, a data security firm, analyzed 32 million passwords that were exposed from a data breach. Unfortunately, these were the most commonly used passwords:

1. 123456

2. 12345

3. 123456789

4. Password

5. iloveyou

Nearly 50% of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, etc).

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