Here are the worst passwords in Switzerland

Are you doing worse than your neighbor? We have the list of the least effective passwords in the country. And the 15th is surprising.

Is your password 123456? Do you find that stupid? However, it is the most used password in Switzerland, by far.

NordPass (a computer security company) collected 2.5 TB of data extracted from various publicly available sources, including the dark web, and released the list of 44 worst passwords for the sixth year in a row. countries, including Switzerland.

And NordPass makes a sad observation:

For our part, we notice that in Switzerland, we have little imagination. The French, for example, were able to slip in a few pearls, notably “doudou”, “loulou” or “chouchou”, respectively at the 8th, 9th and 13th. “Marseille” is doing well in 7th place: used by 11,229 individuals, it would take 24 hours to crack it, compared to less than a second for “soleil” which holds 15th place.

Let’s recognize that the Americans are very ingenious (or naive), their most frequent password is “secret”, while the Greeks seem to be our cousins ​​as their list resembles ours. The Germans, for their part, have achieved the feat of having the elegant “dragon” and the mischievous “pokemon” in their annual ranking.

Change your passwords

A little prevention now: it is important to find a good password in order to best protect yourself from cyberattacks. To do this, IT experts suggest in particular:

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Are you doing worse than your neighbor? We have the list of the least effective passwords in the country. And the 15th is surprising.

Is your password 123456? Do you find that stupid? However, it is the most used password in Switzerland, by far.