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TOP 10, the most common passwords revealed

Author Juhani Smura
In Old stuff
16Oct 07


You must have heard about 79 000, mostly Finnish, Internet accounts were cracked last weekend (79 000 Internet accounts cracked).

Now, on the other Finnish site, Uranium mine, there is to project going on, where the cracked data is used to find out, which passwords are the most common. Cyberantweb.com presents the results, when 28,68% (18080) passwords are cracked. And remember, that it was a Finnish site, so I’ll have to translate few of them to English, and these translations are written with CAPITALS. And here are the winners.

1) salasana (214), with 214 cases the winner is Finnish word for PASSWORD. What a great surprise.
2) 123456 (176)
3) perkele (118), Strong word from Finland, which must be well known to our Scandinavian neighbours. Not to be translated.
4) 12345 (85), this must be so unsafe without the last 6
5) qwerty (74),
6) kakka (63), POO. That took long ;-)
7) 514007 (63), You tell me?
8) moikka (50), HELLO.
9) paska (48), SHIT. The lovely big brother of the poo.
10) koira (46), DOG. Man’s best friend.

Other few, which deserve to be mentioned are:

11) tietokone = COMPUTER
13) kikkeli = DICK
20) password, Some Finns know English, but in totally wrong place

(5) Comments

5 Comments

  1. Melinda, October 23, 2007:

    Too funny. I love the fact that “shit” and “poo” are two popular ones. Some kind of strange Finnish theme here.

  2. 2. Space, October 23, 2007:

    It could be something, that comes first to your mind, but what kind of person thinks first about poo?

  3. hac, July 13, 2008:

    Space: Apparently a Finnish person. :P

  4. Anonymous.fi, September 10, 2009:

    “Some Finns know English, but in totally wrong place”. Our schools start english lessons in the age of 6 or 9 at the latest. This is mandatory by law until the age of 15, and about 90% continue studying further, where english is a part of mandatory curriculum. Depending of the secondary schooling choise, studying of english continues for 2 to 10 years.

    So you really could say that “some finns know english”.

    The writer of this column must think there are polar bears walking on the streets too?

  5. Mr. Anderson, January 13, 2010:

    There are polar bears walking on the streets in Finland?!

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