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New research says of our passwords are easy for hackers to . A company called Impervia analyzed 32 million different passwords. The most ones include 12345, the word ‘password’ and ‘iloveyou’. The research said a hacker can get into 1,000 online in just 17 minutes. Impervia says a good password must be at eight characters long. It should lower and case letters, numbers and characters like exclamation marks, asterisks and dollar .

The biggest about passwords is remembering them. I have dozens and dozens of ones. It’s very annoying when I one. This usually happens when I’m in a to access a site. I have to click the ‘forgot password?’ link to make a new one. Impervia’s about using different characters is . Another good idea is to your passwords regularly. I don’t do this because I’ll probably the new passwords. I just hope hackers find my passwords.