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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51% of IT leaders say employees don’t take security seriously.
42% of IT admins rely on email notifications for employees to update credentials.
67% of IT admins cite credential access management as being very important.
44% of IT admins say employees struggle with knowing how to change their passwords.
48% of organisations report ineffective password health monitoring.
Employees take an average of nine days to update weak or compromised credentials.
23% of SMBs use easily hackable passwords with a pet’s name, a series of numbers, or a family member’s name.
59% of human traffic is clean from leaked credentials against 41% with leaked passwords.
Of the successful leaked password login attempts on WordPress sites, 48% are bot-driven. The remaining 52% of successful logins on WordPress sites originate from legitimate, non-bot users.
Only 5% of leaked password login attempts result in access being denied. 90% of these denied requests are bot-driven. The remaining 19% of login attempts fall under other outcomes, such as timeouts or users who changed their passwords
When including bot-driven traffic, 52% of all detected authentication requests contain leaked passwords.
95% of login attempts involving leaked passwords are coming from bots.
Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.
76% of leaked password login attempts for websites built on WordPress are successful.
Approximately 41% of successful human authentication attempts involve leaked credentials.
31.1 million breached passwords were over 16 characters in length.
Over 31 million of the breached passwords were over 16 characters in length.
Simple passwords like Pass@123 and P@ssw0rd, which meet basic Active Directory requirements, are frequently used, increasing the risk of password reuse.
Organisations using SaaS apps have an average of 47,750 passwords to manage.
The most common base terms used in breached passwords were “password”, “admin”, and “welcome”.