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Hundreds of thousands of people are continuing to use the same weak security passwords worldwide despite countless warnings to change them, cyber security experts discovered.
Cybernews’s research team looked at 56 million breached and leaked passwords in 2022 and found an alarmingly high number of people are still using easy to guess passwords, keyboard sequences, cities and animals for sites such as Google and Facebook.
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A worrying one per cent of passwords investigated ticked the recommended requirements of both upper- and lower-case characters, numbers and special symbols.
Researchers found the classic “123456” was used as a password in a 111,417 cases.…
