The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2015: We're All Such Idiots

By Jamie Condliffe on at


Related: The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2014: We're All Doomed

Every year, SplashData compiles a list of the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the last twelve months, then sorts them in order of popularity. This year the results, based on a total of over two million leaked passwords, are not the list of random alpha-numeric characters you might hope for. Rather, they’re a lesson in exactly how not to choose a password.

Yes, “123456" and “password” remain bewilderingly popular.


1. 123456 (Unchanged)

2. password (Unchanged)

3. 12345678 (Up 1)

4. qwerty (Up 1)

5. 12345 (Down 2)

6. 123456789 (Unchanged)

7. football (Up 3)

8. 1234 (Down 1)

9. 1234567 (Up 2)

10. baseball (Down 2)

11. welcome (New)

12. 1234567890 (New)

13. abc123 (Up 1)

14. 111111 (Up 1)

15. 1qaz2wsx (New)

16. dragon (Down 7)

17. master (Up 2)

18. monkey (Down 6)

19. letmein (Down 6)

20. login (New)

21. princess (New)

22. qwertyuiop (New)

23. solo (New)

24. passw0rd (New)

25. starwars (New)


It’s also nice to see the return of “princess”, which dropped out of the Top 25 last year but has made a resurgence, also potentially due to Star Wars. Elsewhere, other new entires — including “welcome”, “login” and “passw0rd” — are just as hackable but far more amusingly dumb.

You can check out the lists from 2013 and 2014 if you don’t hate humanity and the internet enough already.


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