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Football vs Futbol, who has the better password?

September 19, 2018 By Trevor Collins

You may be tired of hearing how bad our password picking is by now, but we continue to pick weak and easily guessed passwords. Dashline recently reported that NFL team names are commonly used for passwords. More users are picking NFL team names for their passwords now that the season has started. The Eagles took the first spot after winning last year’s Super Bowl. This doesn’t hold true for the Patriots who lost to the Eagles in the Super Bowl but were the 11th ranked password. Here is the list, in order of most common passwords, with how far the team made it in last year’s playoffs.

  1. Eagles – won Super Bowl
  2. Cowboys
  3. Raiders
  4. Dolphins
  5. Steelers – division
  6. Bears
  7. Giants
  8. Rams – playoffs
  9. Saints – division
  10. Packers
  11. Patriots – Super Bowl
  12. Redskins
  13. Vikings – championship
  14. Broncos
  15. Lions
  16. Panthers – playoffs
  17. Jets
  18. Cardinals
  19. Titans – division
  20. Browns
  21. Ravens
  22. Colts
  23. Falcons – division
  24. Chargers
  25. 49ers
  26. Chiefs – playoffs
  27. Bengals
  28. Bills – playoffs
  29. Jaguars – championship
  30. Buccaneers
  31. Seahawks
  32. Texans

Not only fans of the NFL use their favorite team names for passwords, but Premier League soccer fans also use their team names for passwords.

  1. Liverpool
  2. Chelsea
  3. Arsenal
  4. Manchester United
  5. Southampton
  6. West Ham United
  7. Everton
  8. Newcastle United
  9. Tottenham Hotspur
  10. Watford
  11. F.C. Bournemouth
  12. Cardiff City
  13. Brighton & Hove Albion
  14. Leicester City
  15. Fulham
  16. Burnley
  17. Manchester City
  18. Wolverhampton
  19. Huddersfield Town
  20. Crystal Palace

“Coming up with a password can be a very personal and emotional choice, and the data clearly shows consumers like to use the teams they support as part of their password habits,” says Emmanuel Schalit, CEO of Dashlane. Picking these passwords creates a crutch for users that can be easily exploited. There isn’t anything wrong with using a team name as part of your password but using well known teams or not creating an unique passphrase with it makes your passwords easy to crack with a dictionary attack.

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