In the new age of the digital revolution, our worlds are safe with Passwords. From four-letter words to the most complicated ones, we all try to keep them easier to remember.
When it comes to India, the most popular password is password and not 123456. Also, Japan is the only other country that had the same top password as India, as per research.
The other common passwords people use in India are iloveyou, krishna, sairam and omsairam, among others.
As per new research by NordPass which is a proprietary password manager, predictable numerical and keyboard sequences are particularly popular in India.
Basically, names and loving words are rather popular in India both among men and women.
Some other common passwords in India are 123456789, 12345678, india123, qwerty, abc123, xxx, Indya123, 1qaz@WSX, 123123, abcd1234 and 1qaz.
The Indian password list has similar trends as other countries, but it also has its differences.
India is one of only a few countries that have a different number one password and that is password. However, 43 out of 50 analysed countries had 123456 as the number one password.
Qwerty and its variations are also popular in India.
Additionally, other letter combinations in vertical or horizontal order are very popular, the research says.
Moreover, names are quite popular among both men and women, for example, priyanka, sanjay, rakesh and others.
The research also points out how weak the top passwords, are which indicates the time it would take the hacker to crack that password.
In India, overall 62 passwords out of the 200 can be cracked in less than a second. But what we need to understand is that passwords should be hard to crack for any hacker.
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