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Always choosing the same easy passwords, despite being asked to set a tricky one? As per a study, the most commonly used passwords in 2025 are ‘qwerty’, ‘ 123456′, ‘admin’, ‘password’ and ‘India@123′.
Researchers at Comparitech checked over 2 billion accounts whose passwords were compromised on data breach forums in 2025.
‘Admin’, ‘Aa123456′, ‘123′, ‘1234567890′ and ‘password’ lead the list of most commonly used passwords, according to the study.
‘123456′ was used by over 76 lakh people, the report added. Whereas ‘admin’ was the password of more than 19 lakh people. The researchers also found that ‘India@123′ was ranked 53 on the list of 100 most common passwords.
Here’s the list of 10 most-used passwords:
123456
12345678
123456789
admin
1234
Aa123456
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