The thing with "123456" is that 2016 saw it as the most common password and so did 2015, and that's been going on since 2013, meaning it's the worst password for five years in a row now.

If you think "P@ssw0rd" is getting creative, it's not. It still takes less than a second to crack and was counted 135,424 times. Most of the most common passwords on the list are series of numbers ...

New research by NordPass has revealed the most popular passwords used by CEOs - with '123456' and 'password' continuing to top the list.

A security researcher has poured through file dumps of leaked Adobe password info, and surprise! Millions of people use utterly atrocious passwords.