Security News > 2022 > December > Security alert: Use these most popular passwords at your peril

SEE: Password breach: Why pop culture and passwords don't mix.

Thankfully, password manager NordPass is out with its annual ranking of the world's 200 most common passwords.

Karolis Arbaciauskas, head of business development at NordPass, explained that the company partnered with independent researchers, who found a 3TB size database full of leaked passwords, which he described as "a solid basis to evaluate which passwords are, year after year, putting people in danger online."

This May, NordPass presented a study on the passwords business executives use to secure their accounts, and last year, its researchers investigated passwords leaked from Fortune 500 companies.

Kriebel said institutions need to advocate for complex passwords - not just by increasing the mix of characters, symbols and numbers, but by increasing the character count too.

Password generation tools offered by many password managers automatically create strong and unique passwords consisting of random combinations of letters, numbers and symbols.

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