{"id":21125,"date":"2025-12-07T07:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/dont-use-admin-uks-top-20-most-used-passwords-revealed-as-scams-soar\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:38:31","slug":"dont-use-admin-uks-top-20-most-used-passwords-revealed-as-scams-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/dont-use-admin-uks-top-20-most-used-passwords-revealed-as-scams-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t use \u2018admin\u2019: UK\u2019s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackers<\/p>\n<p>It is a hacker\u2019s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that \u201cadmin\u201d is the most commonly used password in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The second most popular, \u201c123456\u201d, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/dec\/07\/uk-top-20-most-used-passwords-scams-cybersecurity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5a7606cf38d1606752b721bfed098b36e4290f8e\/937_0_4685_3748\/master\/4685.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d5829fba8a1de873d10ae687286e63aa\" title=\"Don\u2019t use \u2018admin\u2019: UK\u2019s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar\" \/>Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackers<br \/>\nIt is a hacker\u2019s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that \u201cadmin\u201d is the most commonly used password in the UK.<br \/>\nThe second most popular, \u201c123456\u201d, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackers It is a hacker\u2019s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that \u201cadmin\u201d is the most commonly used password in the UK. The second most popular, \u201c123456\u201d, is also unlikely to keep hackers at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/dont-use-admin-uks-top-20-most-used-passwords-revealed-as-scams-soar\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t use \u2018admin\u2019: UK\u2019s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}