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Premier League teams among most hackable passwords

According to an analysis from the National Cyber Security Center, hundreds of thousands of people across the United Kingdom still use their favourite Premier League team as a password. It found that Liverpool topped the league of easily guessable football passwords, appearing more than 280,000 times on accounts breached by cyber attacks. Chelsea came second with 216,677 while Arsenal came third with 179,095. Interestingly, current champions Manchester City did not make the top-five list of most favoured Premier League team passwords.

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This chart shows the most commonly re-occurring teams used as passwords in cyber breaches in 2019

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