Research by password management application SplashData has revealed the 25 most used passwords in 2018.
Using any of these passwords means your online accounts will be at a heightened security risk, as criminals can gain access by trying the most common passwords first.
The passwords in the league table were compiled from the millions of accounts whose passwords have been hacked this year.
Here's the 25 most used passwords in the UK in 2018:
1. 123456
2. password
3. 123456789
4. 12345678
5. 12345
6. 111111
7. 1234567
8. sunshine
9. qwerty
10. iloveyou
11. princess
12. admin
13. welcome
14. 666666
15. abc123
16. football
17. 123123
18. Monkey
19. 654321
20. !@#$%^&*
21. Charlie
22. aa123456
23. donald
24. password1
25. qwerty123
Choosing a strong password that you can remember easily
If you're looking to change your password, here's a great way to make it very difficult to guess.
Come up with a simple sentence - for example 'The cows on the field eat lots of grass'.
Then use the first letter of each word as your password - in this case it would be 'tcotfelog'.
Finally, replace some of the letters with numbers or symbols, for example the letter 'o' can be replaced by a zero.
In this case, you would be left with the password '1c01fel0g' - much more secure than any of the above yet still very easy to remember.
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