Make sure football is the only thing coming home this summer.
Football fans looking to show their support for their nation at Euro 2020 have been warned not to let their passions leak into their cybersecurity practices. Security firm Authlogics examined a database of over a billion recently-breached passwords, and found that a striking majority of users had football-themed login credentials. A large amount of the passwords were simply a user’s favourite club, or a small variation on the team’s name — with the embarrassingly simple password «football» being used in over 350,000 occurrences. Authlogics’ report examined The Password Breach Database, a repository of over a billion unique clear text passwords that had been involved in recent breaches.
