Passwords
We've curated 124 cybersecurity statistics about Passwords to help you understand how password management practices, common vulnerabilities, and emerging technologies are evolving in 2025. Discover what's changing in the world of authentication!
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62% of Gen Z report some level of stress when it comes to managing passwords.
21% of Gen X admit they don’t trust or know how to set up a password manager
72% of Gen Z admit they reuse the same password across accounts. This contrasts with 42% of Boomers who report doing the same.
Only 13% of Gen Z report using a password manager to securely share sensitive login information.
30% of Gen Z often or always forget passwords to important accounts.
59% of Gen Z admit to reusing an existing password even when updating an account with a company that has recently had a data breach. This compares to just 23% of Boomers who do the same.
72% of both Gen Z and Millennial respondents estimate they have fewer than 25 unique passwords.
38% of Gen Z report changing only a single character or reusing an existing password when prompted to update a credential. This is similar to 31% of Millennials.
55% of all respondents have abandoned logging into an account entirely or created a new one just to avoid the hassle of resetting a password.
19% of Gen Z share passwords verbally.
Gen Z is the most likely generation to use password management software (46%). This compares to 39% of Millennials and 33% of Gen X.
19% of Gen Z send screenshots of their credentials.
One in four (25%) Gen Z respondents share passwords by including them in the body of a text.
Nearly half (44%) of Gen Z changed a streaming service password to remove account access for a family member or friend following an emotional response to something they said or did.
35% of Gen Z respondents revealed they never or rarely update passwords after a data breach at a company with which they have an account. Only 10% of Gen Z reported that they always update compromised passwords.
79% of Gen Z believe that reusing the same password across multiple accounts is risky.
A quarter (25%) of Gen Z often or always rely on the password reset function to access an account when they’ve forgotten their password. This is higher than 11% of Boomers and 17% of Gen X who do the same.
67% of Boomers say they don’t share passwords at all, and only 7% of Boomers resort to text-based sharing.
68% of IT managers say employee motivation is the biggest challenge in remediating at-risk credentials.
Only 33% of IT managers reveal that they are currently able to take a proactive approach to credential security.