believe most people are aware, and experts agree, that having strong online passwords is essential for safeguarding your online accounts and personal information from unauthorized access, data breaches, and identity theft.

Strong passwords make it significantly more difficult for hackers to guess or crack, preventing them from accessing your sensitive data, financial information, or even your entire identity.

That is why most businesses make employees change their passwords regularly, and people in Minnesota should also follow that practice in their personal lives and regularly change their passwords associated with email, financial institutions, and other accounts.

While it's hard to know just how difficult your passwords are to hack, it would be a great idea to start by making sure your passwords are not on the list below.

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These are the most commonly used passwords, and therefore, the most likely to be hacked, which would expose accounts associated with them to cybercriminals.

The 20 Most Commonly Used Passwords In Minnesota

NordPass partnered with NordStellar to review and analyze a 2.5TB database extracted from various publicly available sources, including those on the dark web, to uncover the 20 most commonly used passwords. It's worth noting that no personal data was acquired or purchased to conduct this study.

Those passwords are listed below, and if you're using any of them, or even a variation of any of them, it would be a good idea to change your password before a hacker finds it.

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