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One in Every 142 Passwords is ‘123456’, New Research Shows

Cyprus University students analyzed more than 1 billion username and password combinations that were leaked online from various corporate data breaches. The most common password is 123456, covering around 7 million entries per billion of usernames. Average password length is only 9.4822 characters long. Only 12.04% of analyzed passwords contained special characters. 53% of users have not changed their passwords in the last 12 months, according to a recent study by computer engineering students at Cyprus University. Bitdefenders Digital Identity Protection tool can check if your private data has been exposed.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/one-in-every-142-passwords-is-123456-new-research-shows/

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