FRAUDSTERS have easily cracked 23 MILLION passwords because people are using basic ones such as “123456”. And some Brits are using the same simple password across multiple accounts, a survey has re…
FRAUDSTERS have easily cracked 23 MILLION passwords because people are using basic ones such as “123456”.Getty - ContributorEasily guessed passwords being used across several accounts have been pinpointed as a major gap in the online security practices of UK internet users.
123456 was the most used, ahead of 123456789 and qwerty - the series of letters which appear in a line on a computer keyboard - the word password and 1111111. Only 15 per cent said they knew "a great deal" about how to protect themselves from harmful activity online.Less than 50 per cent said they always used a strong, separate password for their main email account.
"But the National Cyber Security Centre has published lots of easily applicable advice to make you much less vulnerable.
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