median cost of cyber insurance claims caused by hackers was put at 1.8 million U.S. dollars in 2016.
The statistic shows the ranking of the most common passwords on LinkedIn.com revealed after a data breach in 2012. The password "linkedin" was used by a total of 172.5 thousand users. The increase in the number of in cyber attacks in recent years has drawn greater focus on the importance of using a strong password. For companies in the United States, the Most common passwords unscrambled from the 2012 leaked LinkedIn.com dataset as of 2016 (in 1,000s)
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PasskeysFortune. (May 18, 2016). Most common passwords unscrambled from the 2012 leaked LinkedIn.com dataset as of 2016 (in 1,000s) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/271098/most-common-passwords/
Fortune. "Most common passwords unscrambled from the 2012 leaked LinkedIn.com dataset as of 2016 (in 1,000s)." Chart. May 18, 2016. Statista. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271098/most-common-passwords/
Fortune. (2016). Most common passwords unscrambled from the 2012 leaked LinkedIn.com dataset as of 2016 (in 1,000s). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271098/most-common-passwords/
Fortune. "Most Common Passwords Unscrambled from The 2012 Leaked Linkedin.Com Dataset as of 2016 (in 1,000s)." Statista, Statista Inc., 18 May 2016, https://www.statista.com/statistics/271098/most-common-passwords/
Fortune, Most common passwords unscrambled from the 2012 leaked LinkedIn.com dataset as of 2016 (in 1,000s) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/271098/most-common-passwords/ (last visited April 26, 2024)
Most common passwords unscrambled from the 2012 leaked LinkedIn.com dataset as of 2016 (in 1,000s) [Graph], Fortune, May 18, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/271098/most-common-passwords/