Discover the most hacked passwords in 2021 in France

Specops Software, a company specializing in computer security, has just published its ranking of the most hacked passwords in France in 2021. According to our colleagues at PhonAndroidthe prize goes to “Qwerty”, a great classic with sequences of numbers, and the traditional “Azerty”.

After analyzing more than 800 million hacked passwords, the company reveals the recurrence of city names in hacks. Pau, Gap, Nice, Agen, Dax, Bron and Sète come first in this category. “Paris” finds itself in the middle of the ranking with all the same 85,310 hacks.

579 attacks per second

Then come the references to games and animated series. In this category, the most hacked passwords are Sasha, Naruto, Sakura, Pokemon, Pierre and Anbu. The television series are not left out with HPI, Friends, Dexter, Lupin or Fargo.

The company, according to which more than 18 billion hacks have been recorded by companies around the world in one year, or 579 attacks per second, finally reminds us that polite expressions in passwords must be avoided. Thank you, hello, welcome or good evening do the business of hackers. Ditto for Password, a classic of the genre.