{"id":312632,"date":"2019-04-21T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=312632"},"modified":"2019-04-21T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T15:13:53","slug":"most-hacked-passwords-include-liverpool-and-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/312632\/most-hacked-passwords-include-liverpool-and-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Most hacked passwords include Liverpool and Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>British football fans should be wary of rooting for their team by making them a password.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United and Everton are all passwords that have been compromised hundreds of thousand of times, according to research published by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Using numbers is even riskier, especially if it\u2019s 123456. The study revealed that the number series was the most cracked password, with 23.2 million people worldwide having experienced a breach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing hard-to-guess passwords is a strong first step and we recommend combining three random but memorable words,\u201d said Ian Levy, the centre\u2019s technical director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse words memorable to you, so people can\u2019t guess your password.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If a fictional character is your idea of a memorable word, you may wish to reconsider since Pokemon and Tigger together accounted for over 500,000 breaches while pop stars\u2019 names such as 50cent or Eminem fell victim 350,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>The five Premier League teams combined accounted for over three quarters of a million breaches, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>The NCSC also published its first UK cyber survey, which revealed that 70% of Britons believe they will be a victim of cyber-crime over the next two years, with 42% expecting to lose money to online fraud by 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Only 15% of those surveyed felt they knew enough about how to protect themselves from harmful online activity while one in three relied on friends and family to help.<\/p>\n<p>Young people seemed more likely to be privacy-conscious and careful when it came to what details they shared online.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: You should stop using these passwords right now<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/217157\/you-you-should-stop-using-these-passwords-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You should stop using these passwords right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British football fans should be wary of rooting for their team by making them a password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-312632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312636,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312632\/revisions\/312636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}