‘Liverpool’ found to be the most commonly used football-related password in the UK. The UK Cyber Survey have exposed gaps in the personal security knowledge of British people. At a time when cyber security is vital, the polling has revealed some very interesting findings.
Among the results were the fact that just 15 per cent of people say they know a great deal about how to protect themselves from harmful online activity.
And our main concern is the threat of having money stolen, with 42 per cent feeling it is likely to happen by 2021.
The National Cyber Security Centre has published separate analysis in which they reveal the 100,000 most commonly used passwords that have been accessed by third parties in worldwide cyber breaches.
Incredibly, the analysis found that 23.2 million victim accounts worldwide used ‘123456’ as a password.
‘qwerty’ was used 3.8 million times while 3.6 million used ‘password’.
It seems that football fans can’t put aside their allegiances for the interests of cyber security.
280,723 accounts that had ‘liverpool’ as the password were breached last year, the highest number of all 20 Premier League clubs.
‘manutd’ was fourth while rivals Manchester City, with the password ‘mancity’, were 11th.
Check out the full table of Premier League football teams whose name was used to breach accounts:
1 | liverpool | 280,723
2 | chelsea | 216,677
3 | arsenal | 179,095
4 | manutd | 59,440
5 | everton | 46,619
6 | wolves | 35,256
7 | newcastle | 32,143
8 | tottenham | 19,596
9 | westham | 18,801
10 | brighton | 15,523
11 | mancity | 13,796
12 | palace | 13,796
13 | cardiff | 12,594
14 | leicester | 7,921
15 | fulham | 5,984
16 | watford | 5,563
17 | southampton | 3,691
18 | burnley | 3,494
19 | bournemouth | Not in the top 100,000
20 | huddersfield | Not in the top 100,000
Some football fans may need to be more imaginative when it comes to choosing their passwords.
‘blink182’ was the most frequently used artist followed by ‘50cent’, eminem, ‘metallica’ and ‘slipknot’.
Click HERE to see the full 100,000.
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