The most used passwords in Italy in 2023: find out if yours is there too!

More passwords common in Italy in 2023 they are frighteningly the same as those in 2022, and beyond this they are all so banal and predictable as to be, obviously, highly insecure. Before seeing in detail what these passwords are, it is certainly a great time to remind you how to create a good password.

Let’s clarify that what we are talking about is a report published by NordPass, the parent company of NordVPN (which, we remind you, you can get with a 69% Black Friday discount), not an absolute truth, but it was nevertheless written in collaboration with independent researchers, who evaluated a database containing 4.3TB of passwords, obtained from public domain sources.

There is therefore good news: the weakest passwords are in fact used for less sensitive accounts, such as those of multimedia streamingwhile stronger passwords are used for i financial services.

What research can’t reveal is how often a certain password comes up repeatedbecause often the error is right there: the user uses the same password for many different services, and if one of these is violated the attacker automatically gains access to all the others.

We therefore invite you not only to use credentials safebut also different between them. They can give you good help password manager, which automatically generate secure passwords and then store them so they are accessible across different platforms. In this regard you can read our articles on the best password managers in general, and on Google’s in particular. And now let’s see what they are the 20 most used passwords in Italy in 2023.

1. admin
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6
3. password
4. Password
5. 12345678
6. 123456789
7. password99
8. qwerty
9. UNKNOWN
10. 1 2 3 4 5
11. bye bye
12. Francis
13. 1234567890
14. Windows1
15. Windows10
16. richard
17. Corrado
18. francesca
19. Andrew
20. juventus

There’s another important fact to know about these common passwords: they are all hackable in a few secondsexcept UNKNOWN, which still only takes 17 minutes.

The most used password, “admin“, is there probably only because default in many devices/services, but denotes anyway laziness by users, who don’t bother changing it. There is also an excessive tendency to use numbers onlyand you can also see it from a quick look at the ranking above, where out of 20 positions 4 are completely numerical.

Common names And football teams they then represent another commonplacenot only in Italy, but also in other countries.

The fact that, from year to year, this ranking is always similar, reiterates the importance of passkeys, which have already begun to replace old passwords and can represent an additional security tool, also and above all for more ” lazy”. Creating a passkey is simple, but still limited to a few services; when they are more universal, then perhaps rankings like this will lose their meaning, but it will still take a few years.