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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53% of people admit to using the same password across multiple accounts.
The most common length for compromised passwords was 8 characters (212.5 million total).
88% of organisations still use passwords as their primary method of authentication.
123456 was the most common compromised password found in a new list of breached cloud application credentials.
12% of respondents' organisations experienced a material privacy breach in the past 12 months.
The most commonly used keyboard walk pattern was “Qwerty,” which appeared over 1 million times in a list of compromised passwords.
After analysing 1.8 million breached administrator credentials, 40,000 admin portal accounts were found to be using ‘admin’ as a password.
Requiring an Active Directory password length of at least 13 characters would significantly reduce the risk of cloud application password reuse.