Experts declare the situation a cyber security crisis, revealing a total of 19 billion password leaks last year. Is
A new research published in Cyber News reviewed more than 200 data violations between April 2024 and April 2025, citing 19 billion 3 million 929 new passwords.
94 % of passwords were reused or replicated in the passwords that were revealed, while only 1 billion 14 crore 38 lakh 15 thousand 266 (ie 6 %) passwords were unique. In some cases they were used by different users.
According to Niringa, a information security researcher in Cyber News, we are facing an epidemic to reuse a weak password. Only six percent of passwords are unique while the rest are very easy targets.
Research has shown that millions of people give priority to passwords that are easy to remember. 5 million 60 million people used the word ‘password’ and 5 million 30 million people used the word ‘Admin’ as a password.
Researchers also learned that ‘1234’ was used in four percent of the passwords, which is easy for hackers.
The second popular choice for passwords was the name of (8 %).
