The clever people at Mozilla have been studying password statistics on the haveipbeenpwned.com website. Their work has led to the conclusion your child's name makes for a terrible password. Of course, most of us could have reached the same conclusion, but the article indicates how many people seemed not to make the connection. Joshua tops the most common names in the breached password list with 388,793 instances, followed by Oliver with 259,274 and Isabella with 141,743. Betty even makes the list with 21,811.
What is this page?
You are reading a summary article on the Privacy Newsfeed, a free resource for DPOs and other professionals with privacy or data protection responsibilities helping them stay informed of industry news all in one place. The information here is a brief snippet relating to a single piece of original content or several articles about a common topic or thread. The main contributor is listed in the top left-hand corner, just beneath the article title.
The Privacy Newsfeed monitors over 300 global publications, of which more than 5,750 summary articles have been posted to the online archive dating back to the beginning of 2020. A weekly roundup is available by email every Friday.
