Hackers' favourite passwords to break into computer systems revealed

World Password Day is observed on May 2 every year to raise awareness on the importance of using strong passwords

A test run may have revealed the password hackers use most when they try to break into computer systems: ‘123456’.

Sophos, a network and computer security company, found cyber-attackers used that password in 1,376 login attempts in a span of 30 days in a Mumbai cloud server honeypot test. Sophos's report said the same password was used 15,785 times in login attempts globally. The other vulnerable passwords in the Mumbai cloudserver included: '1234', 'Admin', 'Ubnt', and '12345'.

The honeypots were setup in 10 of the most popular Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the world, including California, Frankfurt, Ireland,