These are the most used passwords of 2018

We are ending the year and we begin to recap everything that has happened in these 12 months. We will leave for later a tour of all the news presented by Apple, from iOS 12 to Apple Watch Series 4, through macOS Mojave or the new iPad Pro. It has been a great year for Apple.

In another vein, SplashData is a company dedicated to computer security. Every year it launches a list of 25 most used passwords. The ranking of this year 2018 does not vary much, but the entry of some passwords such as "donald" that is thought to be related to Donald Trump, the current US president, is surprising.

Do you use any of these passwords? Change it!

The passwords we use in our services they are just as important as how we use our accounts. The security of the keys has to be high. Not only to protect our information, but to prevent hackers from increasing their power with more keys to play with. For this reason, companies such as SplashData, that try to make society aware of the importance of having a strong password.

SplashData has published the ranking of the 25 most used passwords in 2018. Without further ado, we leave you the 25 words or combinations:

1. 123456
2. Password
3. 123456789
4. 12345678
5. 12345
6. 111111
7. 1234567
8. sunshine
9. QWERTY
10. I love you
11. princess
12. admin
13. welcome
14. 666666
15. abc123
16. Football
17. 123123
18. monkey
19. 654321
20. ! @ # $% ^ & *
21. charlie
22. aa123456
23. donald
24. password1
25. qwerty123

If we analyze the list, we see that some passwords such as "123456" or "password" remain on the podium of most used passwords and easier to steal. However, with respect to last year's list, the password "123456789" enters the third position. Although this is longer than the previous ones, it is just as vulnerable since it only uses numbers and also sequentially.

Sorry, President (Donald Trump), but this is none fake news Using your name or any name as a password is a dangerous decision. Hackers are successful in using celebrity, pop or sports names or keyboard patterns to enter accounts as they know that many users use these passwords because they are "easy to remember."

The entry to position 23 of the key «donald«. It is believed to be related to Donald Trump and, according to SplashData, this mechanic is very harmful For the users. Not only by using the name of the president, but by using any name or surname of any famous person, since it is information that can be entered in a raw way with only a database with this information.

Finally, as a suggestion, we recommend that you update your passwords periodically, providing them with high security. To do this, they must be more than 8 characters: letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers and symbols.