May the brute force be with you: Worst 2015 passwords pay homage to Star Wars

As Obi-Wan Kenobi would say, "These aren't the passwords you're looking for."

It doesn't take a Jedi mind trick to guess a bad password,just some savvy social engineering or a brute-force attack. So users who picked“starwars,” “solo” or “princess” for their credentials will be sorry to hearthat they selected one of the 25 most common — and therefore worst — passwords of2015, according to SplashData.

Aside from these references to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there were several othernew entries to the annual list, including “1234567890,” “1qaz2wsx” (the twoleftmost letter columns on a keyboard) and “qwertyuiop”  (the top row of keyboard letters). In its blog,SplashData notes that while these passwords are longer than previous listentries, they “are so simple as to make theirextra length virtually worthless as a security measure.”

Unchanged from 2014, the most common passwordof 2015 was the dreadfully uninspired “123456.” SplashData's list of worst passwords:

1. 123456
2. password
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. 12345
6. 123456789
7. football
8. 1234
9. 1234567
10. baseball
11. welcome
12. 12345667890
13. abc123
14. 111111
15. 1qaz2wsx
16. dragon
17. master
18. monkey
19. letmein
20. login
21. princess
22. qwertyuiop
23. solo
24. passw0rd
25. starwars