Lifehacker: “Bad password habits are hard to break. In the olden days of the internet, many of us got used to repeating the same, easy-to-remember password on every site, so we’d never have to worry about getting locked out. And recent data suggests plenty of people have yet to learn better, even if the era of mass data leaks (bad) and ubiquitous password managers (good, provided you choose the right one). There’s a lot we can say regarding good password hygiene, but let’s focus on some interesting new data from NordVPN. The company researched the most common passwords used in 2022, and the results are a bit depressing, if not unsurprising. By far, the most common of the bunch are “password,” with nearly five million uses, and “123456,” with 1.5 million. (Tack a “789″ on the end of that one, and you have the third most used password on Nord’s list.) The full list of 200 passwords has plenty of winners, from “guest,” to “qwerty,” to my personal favorite, “fuckyou.” But it includes tons of combinations of common words and numbers as well. If you recognize any of your passwords on this list, it’s a good reminder to change it as soon as possible, of course. But you also need to think about creating stronger passwords generally (and finally getting a password manager)…”