You must’ve often read or heard security experts stress upon the importance of having unique usernames and passwords for your accounts. The reason for this is because there are hundreds of thousands of wordlists available on the Internet containing millions upon millions of combinations of different usernames and passwords which are easily accessible by anyone.
Now you might be thinking as to why this is such a big deal. There’s no way that a human can possibly check each and every combination one by one to find out whether I use that particular username/password or not. Well, you are right, partially.
While it may be impossible for a hacker to individually check these combinations, it isn’t such a huge deal for a computer. Hackers use scripts and softwares designed for the specific purpose of carrying out such tasks. And depending on the strength of your username and password as well as the processing speed of the computer, your credentials can be found out from anywhere between a few milliseconds to a few centuries.
Such type of attacks are known as Brute Force attacks or Dictionary attacks, where hackers use wordlists to guess your login credentials. Now it might sound ineffective at first considering the massive amount of possible combinations that can be generated but it is still widely popular.
The main reason for that is, hackers can narrow down the list of possible combinations by obtaining your Personally Identifiable Information or PII. With this data in hand, they can create wordlists centering around these words and generate wordlists containing combinations of this data. It doesn’t sound a mammoth task now does it.
Every year, NordPass publishes a list of the most common usernames and passwords that were exploited and leaked by hackers on to the internet. On further analysis of this list, it is surprising to see how incredibly simple and easy passwords people are using even in the 21st century.
Here we have provided you with two lists containing the top 200 most common credentials and we highly recommend you to search through the list and check if you are using any of these credentials and change them if you are.
Top 200 Most Common Usernames of 2020 according to NordPass:
- ยศกร
- David
- Alex
- Maria
- Anna
- Marco
- Antonio
- Daniel
- Andrea
- 집을뒤집자
- Laura
- Ali
- 박춘우
- Jose
- Sandra
- พิมวิภา
- Sara
- Carlos
- Ana
- Michael
- Marie
- Francesco
- Mehmet
- Marta
- Sarah
- John
- Luca
- Martin
- Murat
- Mario
- Juan
- Thomas
- Giuseppe
- Chris
- Peter
- Mustafa
- Jessica
- Mohamed
- Monika
- Elena
- Robert
- Manuel
- Christian
- Roberto
- Kevin
- Pedro
- Patrick
- Ahmet
- Luis
- Cristina
- Jan
- Paul
- Patricia
- Eva
- Ahmed
- Mary
- Eric
- Alessandro
- Miguel
- Sergio
- Tony
- Alexandra
- Ivan
- Vanessa
- Julie
- Alberto
- Nicolas
- Sonia
- Silvia
- Claudia
- Julien
- Max
- Adam
- Mike
- Hakan
- Sabrina
- Marina
- Marc
- Daniela
- Julia
- Nicole
- Fabio
- Francesca
- Lisa
- Angela
- Jana
- Natalia
- Javier
- Jorge
- Angel
- Sam
- Bruno
- Giovanni
- Martina
- Agnieszka
- Paolo
- Marcin
- Carmen
- Nathalie
- Linda
- Mark
- James
- Barbara
- Tom
- Adrian
- Isabelle
- Jennifer
- Stefano
- Michel
- Piotr
- Christine
- Sophie
- Anthony
- Christophe
- Hasan
- Karim
- Victor
- Lucie
- Diana
- Pierre
- Diego
- Michele
- Monica
- Kasia
- Laurent
- Fernando
- Karolina
- Sebastian
- Simone
- Richard
- Melanie
- Ibrahim
- Emre
- Pascal
- Nina
- Elisa
- Petra
- Stefan
- Philippe
- Olga
- Petr
- Jonathan
- Jean
- Davide
- Nico
- Dani
- Lucia
- Pablo
- Cindy
- Vincent
- Frank
- Daniele
- Jenny
- Cristian
- Fred
- Magdalena
- Emilie
- Valentina
- Katarzyna
- Olivier
- Marek
- Manu
- Stephanie
- Alain
- Joanna
- Francisco
- Ricardo
- Ben
- Melissa
- バス
- Alice
- Javi
- Paula
- Veronica
- Sandrine
- Fatih
- Jack
- Angelo
- Kamil
- Alexander
- Simon
- Steve
- Carla
- Jesus
- Massimo
- Michelle
- Matteo
- Paulina
- Serkan
- Anita
- Andy
- Oscar
- Nadia
- Sylvie
- Pavel
- Caroline
- Rosa
- Luigi
- Ania
- Andreas
- 123456
- 123456789
- picture1
- password
- 12345678
- 111111
- 123123
- 12345
- 1234567890
- senha
- 1234567
- qwerty
- abc123
- Million2
- 000000
- 1234
- iloveyou
- aaron431
- password1
- qqww1122
- 123
- omgpop
- 123321
- 654321
- qwertyuiop
- qwer123456
- 123456a
- a123456
- 666666
- asdfghjkl
- ashley
- 987654321
- unknown
- zxcvbnm
- 112233
- chatbooks
- 20100728
- 123123123
- princess
- acket025
- evite
- 123abc
- 123qwe
- sunshine
- 121212
- dragon
- 1q2w3e4r
- 5201314
- 159753
- 0123456789
- pokemon
- qwerty123
- Bangbang123
- jobandtalent
- monkey
- 1qaz2wsx
- abcd1234
- default
- aaaaaa
- occer
- 123654
- ohmnamah23
- 12345678910
- zing
- shadow
- 102030
- 11111111
- asdfgh
- 147258369
- qazwsx
- qwe123
- michael
- football
- baseball
- 1q2w3e4r5t
- party
- daniel
- asdasd
- 222222
- myspace1
- asd123
- 555555
- a123456789
- 888888
- 7777777
- fuckyou
- 1234qwer
- superman
- 147258
- 999999
- 159357
- love123
- tigger
- purple
- samantha
- charlie
- babygirl
- 88888888
- jordan23
- 789456123
- jordan
- anhyeuem
- killer
- basketball
- michelle
- 1q2w3e
- lol123
- qwerty1
- 789456
- 6655321
- nicole
- naruto
- master
- chocolate
- maggie
- computer
- hannah
- jessica
- 123456789a
- password123
- hunter
- 686584
- iloveyou1
- 987654321
- justin
- cookie
- hello
- blink182
- andrew
- 25251325
- love
- 987654
- bailey
- princess1
- 0123456
- 101010
- 12341234
- a801016
- 1111
- 1111111
- anthony
- yugioh
- fuckyou1
- amanda
- asdf1234
- trustno1
- butterfly
- x4ivygA51F
- iloveu
- batman
- starwars
- summer
- michael1
- 00000000
- lovely
- jakcgt333
- buster
- jennifer
- babygirl1
- family
- 456789
- azerty
- andrea
- q1w2e3r4
- qwer1234
- hello123
- 10203
- matthew
- pepper
- 12345a
- letmein
- joshua
- 131313
- 123456b
- madison
- Sample123
- 777777
- football1
- jesus1
- taylor
- b123456
- whatever
- welcome
- ginger
- flower
- 333333
- 1111111111
- robert
- samsung
- a12345
- loveme
- gabriel
- alexander
- cheese
- passw0rd
- 142536
- peanut
- 11223344
- thomas
- angel1
Now a normal user might not be affected much by his credentials getting hacked, but if you are the admin of the website it might spell doom for you. By guessing your credentials, hackers can get access to your account which means they get access to your website.
That means all the data you have on your website, your customers data, their banking and personal information, your server and database can all be breached easily and the information that they contain can be misused.
Therefore it is important to have a unique and complex username and passwords consisting of alpha numeric characters. By doing this, you increase the complexity of your password and prevent hackers from easily guessing them.
We hope that this article made you aware on the common usernames and passwords used by people on the Internet and the dangers of doing so.
If you have gone through the list provided by us and have encountered your own credentials amongst them, we urge you to change them as soon as possible to avoid the risk of getting hacked. It is important to keep your digital life safe and secure because if it is breached then your personal life won’t remain the same.
