The last case is that of Louvre. In early November a museum employee revealed after the theft that the password used on the video surveillance system would be very easy to decipher. No alphanumeric code. Just a capital letter and a word that can easily be traced back to one of the best known museums in the world: Louvre. It happens often. NordPass is a password management service. Each year its biggest advertising campaign is the publication of a list with the most used passwords in all countries of the world. A research from which Italy it never comes out very well. The most used passwords are also the most banal ones. Strips of numbers or codes with little imagination that are easy to pierce.
The latest published research examines the period between September 2024 to September 2025. The first ones three passwords that appear in the ranking are very very very easy to guess: admin, password and 123456. If you use one of these for any service, take ten minutes this morning to change it. Certain. The most interesting part of the ranking it’s not this one. The top positions have always been the same. Last year it was in first place 123456. The best passwords can be found by scrolling further down the rankings.
There’s a bit of everything. Blasphemiesfootball teams, personal names that we imagine coincide with that of the admin. We report 8th place Naples1926team name and year of foundation. However, it is in 17th place juventus. Position number 9 isn’t bad either 123star. Even if it’s pirate perlanera in 10th position reveals a certain nostalgia for the saga Pirates of the Caribbean. Obviously the more known the passwords, the easier it is to steal them.
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The list of the most used passwords in Italy
- admin
- password
- 123456
- Password
- 12345678
- 123456789
- 12345
- Naples1926
- 123star
- perlanera
The password problem in Gen Z
If you think that the problem of passwords concerns above all those who have little familiarity with digitalthe ranking of Gen Z does not hold many positive aspects for the future of digital security. Even among Gen Z, the most used password in the world is 12345. The first four positions are occupied by the continuation of the numerical strip, up to 123456789. Noteworthy in seventh place skibidia fairly clear reference to the skibidi toilet trend.
