Linkedin Top 50 Leaked Passwords
Earlier this week passwords that were jacked from LinkedIn from 2012 were offered for sale online. What initially thought to be a theft of 6.5 million passwords has actually turned out to be a breach of 117 million passwords. The cache of stolen accounts were hashed with the recently deprecated SHA-1 algorithm. leakedsource.com was able to get their hands on the dump the passwords weren’t salted and easily cracked. Below are their results.
| Rank | Password | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 123456 | 753,305 |
| 2 | 172,523 | |
| 3 | password | 144,458 |
| 4 | 123456789 | 94,314 |
| 5 | 12345678 | 63,769 |
| 6 | 111111 | 57,210 |
| 7 | 1234567 | 49,652 |
| 8 | sunshine | 39,118 |
| 9 | qwerty | 37,538 |
| 10 | 654321 | 33,854 |
| 11 | 000000 | 32,490 |
| 12 | password1 | 30,981 |
| 13 | abc123 | 30,398 |
| 14 | charlie | 28,049 |
| 15 | linked | 25,334 |
| 16 | maggie | 23,892 |
| 17 | michael | 23,075 |
| 18 | 666666 | 22,888 |
| 19 | princess | 22,122 |
| 20 | 123123 | 21,826 |
| 21 | iloveyou | 20,251 |
| 22 | 1234567890 | 19,575 |
| 23 | Linkedin1 | 19,441 |
| 24 | daniel | 19,184 |
| 25 | bailey | 18,805 |
| 26 | welcome | 18,504 |
| 27 | buster | 18,395 |
| 28 | Passw0rd | 18,208 |
| 29 | baseball | 17,858 |
| 30 | shadow | 17,781 |
| 31 | 121212 | 17,134 |
| 32 | hannah | 17,040 |
| 33 | monkey | 16,958 |
| 34 | thomas | 16,789 |
| 35 | summer | 16,652 |
| 36 | george | 16,620 |
| 37 | harley | 16,275 |
| 38 | 222222 | 16,165 |
| 39 | jessica | 16,088 |
| 40 | ginger | 16,040 |
| 41 | michelle | 16,024 |
| 42 | abcdef | 15,938 |
| 43 | sophie | 15,884 |
| 44 | jordan | 15,839 |
| 45 | freedom | 15,793 |
| 46 | 555555 | 15,664 |
| 47 | tigger | 15,658 |
| 48 | joshua | 15,628 |
| 49 | pepper | 15,610 |
