Most common LinkedIn passwords as of 2012

Published by Statista Research Department, May 18, 2016
The statistic shows the ranking of the most common passwords on LinkedIn.com revealed after a data breach in 2012. The password "linkedin" was used by a total of 172.5 thousand users. The increase in the number of in cyber attacks in recent years has drawn greater focus on the importance of using a strong password. For companies in the United States, the median cost of cyber insurance claims caused by hackers was put at 1.8 million U.S. dollars in 2016.

Most common passwords unscrambled from the 2012 leaked LinkedIn.com dataset as of 2016 (in 1,000s)

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Release date

May 2016

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2012

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2.2 million passwords from a 2012 data breach at LinkedIn

Supplementary notes

The source's analysis covers 2.2 million instances of passwords, which represented less than 2.2 percent of the total cache.

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