Google Experts Named The Most Vulnerable Passwords

Google experts and scientists from the University of California at Berkeley conducted a study on the most popular methods of stealing passwords and logins over the past year.
 
The materials say that 788,000 victims of hacking were victims of malicious software, 12.4 million compromised their passwords as a result of phishing, 1.9 billion people were affected by global database hacks, information of which was put up for sale on black markets.
 
It is reported that for the period from March 2016 to March 2017, a total of 1 484 680 141 logins, passwords and other personal data of users entered the hands of intruders.
 
As a result of the study, specialists were able to calculate the most popular passwords that were leaked. It is quite predictable in the first place was the password “123456” – it was able to decipher more than 6 million times. The second line went to the alphabetic “password” (2.7 million hacks), the third place – in the combination “123456789” (2.2 million).
 
According to experts, 15% of victims of hackers continue to use a compromised password on other sites. However, some resources track such combinations, preventing users from using the same password more than once, but this is more likely an exception.
 
Also in the report, experts submitted a rating of mail domains, whose users were most affected by phishing. The leader here was GMail   – 72.2% of cases.
 
This is because, having acquired the password from the user’s mailbox, an attacker can easily get into Google Docs, Google Drive and other services. The second line in the frequency of hacking went to Yahoo !, and the third – to the mail “Yandex.”
 
In addition, Google specialists were able to track which countries in the world most often go to compromised accounts.
 
The first place was in Nigeria (41.5% of cases of authorization through previously hacked accounts), followed by the United States (11.4%), Morocco (7.6%), South Africa (6.4%), and the United Kingdom (3, 3%).

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