Now could be a good time to get your passwords in order and make some urgent changes. New research has revealed just how simple some codes are to crack with it taking a matter of seconds for cyber crooks to gain access to personal accounts.
The new report from the team at payment firm Dojo makes for worrying reading but some pretty simple modifications will make sure your online accounts stay safe.
Dojo says that the most hackable passwords are ones that contain all lowercase letters or numbers and are less than 8 characters long. For example, the passwords purple, letmein or 202201 can all be guessed in under a second. Compare that to the word wednesday1 which takes over 2,000 seconds to crack and you can see how small changes can make a big difference.
