Year ender 2023: These were the most unsafe passwords in India this year

A look at the most common passwords in India and across the world

In the day and age of the internet, having a strong password is crucial to protect your privacy online. Using a common password can allow hackers to breach your accounts more easily, which in turn can compromise your personal data like bank accounts. For the fifth year in a row, NordPass has released a list of the most common passwords used by people across the world. The list also looks at common passwords in different countries.

In India, “123456” was the most common password, used over 3.6 lakh times in the data analysed by NordPass. The time taken to crack this password is less than one second.

Take a look at the top 10 most common passwords in India this year:

123456 (Time to crack it: less than 1 second)
admin (Time to crack it: less than 1 second)
12345678 (Time to crack it: less than 1 second)
12345 (Time to crack it: less than 1 second)
password (Time to crack it: less than 1 second)
Pass@123 (Time to crack it: 5 minutes)
123456789 (Time to crack it: less than 1 second)
Admin@123 (Time to crack it: 1 year)
India@123 (Time to crack it: 3 hours)
admin@123 (Time to crack it: 34 minutes)

You can check out the full list here.

Globally, too, “123456” remained the most commonly-used password, followed by “admin.”

If your password is on this list, you may want to consider changing it on priority. Cyber safety experts recommend using passwords that contain a combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Such passwords are considered strong passwords as they are most effective against guessing and brute-force attacks by hackers.