World’s Most Breached Passwords Revealed: Check Yours
Soham Halder
Think your password is safe? Here are the most breached passwords in 2025 and how yours might be at risk.
Data-security researchers uncovered over 16 billion compromised credentials in 2025 alone; your login could be among them.
The 2025 list of most common passwords includes “123456”, “admin”, “password”, “12345678”, and yes, people still use them.
More than 38% of top 1,000 breached passwords consist solely of sequential numbers like “1234…”, making them trivially hacked.
Variations of “password”, “admin”, and “qwerty” still rank high in breach lists, so using those is essentially waving a flag to hackers.
When one account is breached, using the same password elsewhere means hackers get everything. Credential reuse is a major threat.
Security firms say a safely resistant password in 2025 should be 12+ characters, include upper + lower case, numbers, symbols, and avoid dictionary words.
Experts now recommend moving beyond passwords; multi-factor authentication (MFA) or passkeys are becoming the new security baseline.
Use a trusted breach-checker, enable MFA, change weak logins and if your password shows up on a breach list, update it immediately.