Do you use THESE weak passwords? Change NOW! 5 tips on how to make passwords strong, unique

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With the technological transformation of digital payments and manifold rise in online activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, cybercrime has skyrocketed. This is especially so because most users do not understand the online system fully and they can be tricked into doing something that can lead to big problems. One of the biggest problems online currently is that of weak passwords. Just because users don't want to remember strong passwords, they keep them very simple. That means, hacking of Google account passwords or of other social media accounts like on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram is possible and that too very easily. Some people even keep their online bank account passwords, or net banking passwords, very simple and easy to guess for hackers. Pointing all these weaknesses out is a recently released report by card payments company Dojo. It has found that most people use the same password across multiple platforms! Meaning, they use the same weak password for Google account, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and even for their bank accounts! Dojo points out that there was a 600 percent rise in illegal activity worldwide, amongst which repetition of passwords on multiple platforms was the basic cause. So, here we list 5 tips on how to make passwords strong and unique and which ones to avoid in order to stay secure online. Check list of passwords here.

Here is the list of most hacked passwords:

Under no circumstances should you ever use these weak passwords.

The second most commonly hacked password category was 'names', with 3,913 of the top 20 names appearing in compromised passwords. Animals came in third place, with 2,112 hacked passwords, including the top 20 most popular animals. And not a big deal to guess this, but the most