One of the world's worst passwords, 123456, helped a hacker steal 8.8 million people's data in Denmark
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Facepalm: It's no secret that the most popular passwords in the world are the worst. You'd be forgiven for assuming their use is limited to the less tech-savvy, but a hacker claims to have breached Denmark's Central Register of Persons (CPR) via an IT company whose account used the password "123456."
Number sequences starting with 1 dominate lists of the most common passwords – there were ten of them in last year's top 20. The most popular of them all topped the list: "123456."
The person who breached Denmark's CPR told regional news outlet Politiken that at least three company accounts, including an administrator account, used the same awful password.
The CPR administration recently confirmed that a data breach took place in September, exposing names, addresses, and ID numbers of 8.8 million people,...
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