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Top 50 Canadian passwords (Tiffany’s Tale)

What do Canada’s most-used passwords tell about Canadians? Maybe you had better ask Tiffany.

What is the most common password in Canada? You might be surprised to know that it’s not “password”. In fact, “123456” beats out password by a notch, according to this study by Nordpass.

What is interesting, though, is that using “password” as a password is a somewhat Canadian thing, as it ranks fourth elsewhere in the world. The list of top 50 Canadian passwords is below, and some of them are perplexing.

To be sure, the first seven make sense, and are pretty much what you might expect – various versions of qwerty, 123s and ABCs. But then we hit #8: [Read more…]