The dumbest passwords people still use

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Everybody knows that 12345 is a bad password. But what they're using instead isn't much stronger

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We asked network security experts to tell us which passwords Americans just can't stop using right now, even though they should. Here's what they told us. Yes: A bizarrely high number of Americans are taking the name of a sometimes-troubled actor, moving some characters around, and calling it a password.

"This was cracked from a wordlist," VIPRE Chief Product Officer Usman Choudhary says. "You can bank on pretty much any famous person out there -- actors, celebrities, athletes, you name it -- being in wordlists because people have [them] in their passwords."

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Caption by: Leslie Gornstein

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