A new study by Cybernews found that 94% of passwords leaked in recent data breaches are either reused or repeated, which is risky for account safety. The study looked at over 19 billion leaked passwords from April 2024 to early 2025. The study also showed that many people still use very simple passwords like “123456” or common names like “Ana.” Only 6% of the passwords were unique. People also used curse words, food names, brand names, and city names as passwords.
The findings are based on data collected from around 200 cybersecurity incidents, including breaches involving Snowflake and SOCRadar.io. The leaked data, totalling over 3TB, included passwords, email addresses, and other personal information. Here is the list of common passwords:
- 1234 – used in almost 4% of all passwords (~727 million passwords)
123456 – used in about 338 million passwords
password – around 56 million passwords
admin – around 53 million passwords
pass – (common within “password” and other variations)
ana – included in almost 1% of all passwords (about 178.8 million), often as part of other words like “banana”
love – 87 million times
sun – 34 million times
dream – 6.1 million times
joy – 6.9 million times
freedom – 2 million times
mario – 9.6 million times
joker – 3.1 million times
batman – 3.9 million times
thor – 6.2 million times
elsa – 2.9 million times
ass – 165 million times (often part of “pass” or “password”)
fuck – 16 million times
shit – 6.5 million times
dick – 3.2 million times
bitch – 3.2 million times
Exposed Credentials
- The exposed credentials come from leaks and data breaches that happened over 12 months starting in April 2024. This includes information from several leaked databases, commonly used password lists (called combolists), and logs from malware that steals passwords. The report shows that a total of 19,030,305,929 passwords were leaked online. Out of these, only about 1.14 billion (6%) were unique, meaning most of the passwords were reused or repeated.
Another Common Passwords
tea – 36 million times
apple – 10.7 million times
rice – 4.9 million times
orange – 3.6 million times
pizza – 3.3 million times
lion – 9.8 million times
fox – 7.8 million times
rome – 13 million times
may – 28 million times
april – 5.2 million times
google – 25.9 million times
facebook – 18.7 million times
kia – 12.7 million times
