World Password Day Is a Reminder to Change Your Sucky Passwords

Spring cleaning means more than just dusting off your curtains or decluttering your desk. It's also the perfect time to tidy up your digital life, starting with your passwords. World Password Day is observed on the first Thursday in May, a day that's been encouraging people to review their passwords and security settings since Intel created the event in 2013. Read more: Best Password Manager in 2025 Nearly every year, a list of the worst passwords makes the rounds online, and the same weak choices continue to dominate. According to password management company Nordpass, which analyzed six years of data, these poor passwords have barely changed, giving hackers easy access to user accounts year after year. 123456 isn't the best password choice Nordpass said it takes hackers less than a second to crack many of the top 20 most common passwords -- including "password," "qwerty123 " and "iloveyou." The No. 1 offender? "123456." (Seriously -- haven't we learned anything in the last decade ... Read full article.