After sifting through more than 1.8 million pages identified as admin portals, researchers made a disheartening discovery — 40,000 of them used “admin” as its password, making it the most popular credential used by IT administrators.
The research was conducted on 2023 passwords between January and September by a team with Outpost24, which also found an increased reliance on default passwords.
The top 10 passwords discovered by the analysis included common defaults and easy-to-guess options:
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