The Nonce: Feb 3, 2020

The most common name-based password is George.

ID Agent has culled through billions of password dumps looking for patterns in password usage. That has been done many times before and we’ve all seen the list of top 10 passwords. But ID Agent has gone deeper this time and broken these password into “types” and called out the top results in each. Interesting read that goes deeper than “password123.”

As a result of this onslaught of apps of convenience, most people result to choosing extensions of oneself that can be divided into 24 common password types.

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