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April 22, 2019 09:21 pm GMT

Everyone is using Blink-182 as their password and the band is not cool with it

The world is awash in '90s nostalgia — and it's even showing up in our passwords.

A new study from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed the world's most easily hacked passwords, CNN reports. The top no-brainer passwords overall are impersonal number combinations, like 12345. But in the category of "bands," the most breached password is the name of the popular '90s pop-punk outfit, Blink-182. 

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That means that if you're part of the apparently enormous group of people who use their passwords to pay homage to the spirit of teenage rebellion, you're at risk of getting hacked.  Read more...

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