If you haven't given your email or social media passwords a refresh in a while then it's worth making some urgent changes. Today is World Password Day and to mark the occasion the UK's most common phrases have been exposed to show people if their security isn’t up to scratch. Incredibly, it appears that plenty of us are still using ludicrously simple codes including the word 'password' and number '123456'. That makes things ludicrously easy for cyber thieves to crack and possibly access personal data.
With World Password Day aimed at highlighting issues, the team at NordPass say they have studied what passwords UK web users are inputting every day and have come up with the top 20 list of the most popular combinations.
