A study by the American tech company Google has found some surprising findings. 1.5% of all Internet sign-ins are passwords that have already been hacked.
Google said, 'We have scanned 21 million usernames and passwords and over 3.16 lakh of them are unsafe' The company said that 26% of users have changed passwords after data breach warning. 94% of these new passwords are as strong as real. But some users have also ignored these warnings.
In this study of Google, it has also been said that users should stop using one type of password for different websites. In such a situation, there is a high risk of theft of information of such users.
Significantly, due to the ease of users, many websites keep the same password. Like Gmail, Facebook or Twitter all have one type of password. In such a situation, if the data is stolen from any one platform, in such a situation, hackers target other accounts of the users with the same password.
Every year a list of the worst passwords is issued, of which 12345678 is at number 1. Similarly, weak passwords are created by different websites. Users should never use a password for different platforms.
Apart from this, it should be made stronger by using special character in password and it should also be changed from time to time.
One thing is clear from this study of Google that a large amount of users ignore the password-related warnings and they have to suffer the consequences in many ways.
