Credentials
We've curated 148 cybersecurity statistics about credentials to help you understand how password management, multi-factor authentication, and the rise of phishing attacks are shaping the security landscape in 2025.
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Animals are common in passwords: "lion" (9.8 million), "fox" (7.8 million).
Religious terms are popular in passwords, with “god” appearing in 24 million entries, “hell” in 20 million.
Extending this, “123456” is used in 338 million passwords. Both “password” (56 million) and “admin” (53 million) remain highly popular, being the most popular passwords at least since 2011.
Days are popular in passwords, with "Monday" appearing in 0.8 million entries.
Credential-stuffing attacks, while seemingly inefficient, have a success rate between 0.2% and 2.0%, which makes them highly profitable as hackers test millions of credentials to yield thousands of compromised accounts.
People's names were the second most prevalent password component.
Professions are popular in passwords, with "boss" appearing in 10 million entries, "hunter" in 6.6 million, "cook" in 4.2 million.
Cities are common in passowrds, with "Rome" appearing in 13 million.
Sports are popular in passwords, with "Soccer" appearing in 4 million entries, "football" in 3.4 million.
There is an 8% chance for names from the 100 most popular names of 2025 list to be included in a password.
Profane words are very common in passwords. The top entry is “ass” (165 million), partly explained by use in “pass” or “password”. Other common swear words include “fuck” (16 million), “shit” (6.5 million), “dick” (3.2 million), and “bitch” (3.2 million).
US States are popular in passwords, with "Carolina" appearing in 1.9 million entries, "Dakota" in 1.2 million, "Texas" in 1.1 million.
Most people use passwords between 8–10 characters in length, accounting for 42% of the analysed passwords. Eight characters was the most popular length.
Almost 20% of unique passwords mixed case letters and numbers but did not include special characters.
There has been an improvement in complexity over time: in 2022, only 1% of passwords used a mix of lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and symbols; this figure has now climbed to 19%.
Food is popular in passwords, with "tea" appearing in 36 million entries, "apple" in 10.7 million, "rice" in 4.9 million, "orange" in 3.6 million, "Pizza" in 3.3 million.
Seasons are popular in passwords, with "Summer" appearing in 3.8 million entries.
Passkey implementation has reached 48% of the world’s top 100 websites
More than half of consumers believe passkeys are both more secure (53%) and more convenient (54%) than passwords.
74% of consumers are aware of passkeys.