Most popular Adobe hacked passwords

By: Salma Tantawi

You would think coming up with a strong password has become a basic security step with all the tips provided by the services you sign up for. It’s not that complicated; all you have to do is pick a mix of characters, numbers and maybe symbols to have a secure-enough password.

However, it turns out that “1234” and “abcd” are still very popular passwords among internet users. Recently-hacked Adobe had the data of more than 38 million users compromised in October, which revealed that among the hacked users’ accounts were some passwords that were basically asking for it.

These are a list of the most popular passwords among hacked accounts:

• 123456
• 123456789
• password
• adobe123
• 12345678
• qwerty
• 1234567
• 111111
• photoshop
• 123123
• 1234567890
• 000000
• abc123
• 1234
• adobe1
• macromedia
• azerty
• iloveyou
• aaaaaa
• 654321