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Is Your Password Safe to Use? Check out This Hacker-Made List

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By Chaas Toborg - email

Password management company "Splash Data" looked at millions of passwords released by an online hacker group, and released a list of ones you might want to stay away from.

The list shows the most commonly used passwords, which could leave you suseptible to a hack because, afterall, that's how the list was made.

Topping the list were the "usual suspects", like "password" and "1-2-3-4-5-6".

But, the company found a few new, interesting ones.

In 2011, "Jesus", "Welcome", "Mustang", "Ninja" and "Monkey" also made the list of most popular passwords.

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