The top passwords of 2014 will make you feel comparatively ingenious

Given that it's 2015, and we have been logging onto the world wide web for decades, you'd assume people would have a healthy grasp on what makes a good password by now. But no, that doesn’t appear to be the case — if the list of the 25 most popular passwords of 2014 is anything to go by, anyway.

SplashData's annual list compiles the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the year, and assembles them in order of popularityThis year's list is a particular doozy. It proves, among other things, that there are a lot of Michaels out there, that we're all still hung up on superheroes and that, at the very least, people have the cognitive ability to count to six. Read more...