Infogram Insights: Weak Passwords

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In 2012, details of 117 million LinkedIn users were stolen, including, of course, the passwords. The information shared by LeakedSource revealed that a huge number of users chose passwords as dangerously simple as “123456” – the most popular password by far, used by over 750,000 accounts at the time.

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